Word: museum
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...another year), we seem more fascinated with the subject than ever. At the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, crowds are flocking to a new exhibition, "The Story of Time," which examines time from cultural, religious, artistic and scientific viewpoints. On this side of the Atlantic, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has opened a permanent show on America's fascination with time. In bookstores, best-selling author James Gleick's Faster (Pantheon), which laments the accelerating pace of our lives, will be joined next month by The End of Time (Oxford University Press), British physicist Julian Barbour...
...Brian D. Sadie, a museum attendant at the Fogg and Sackler museums, Gomes' lectures have led him to re-examine the Bible and its teachings...
...sure mark of a good piece of art is that it tempts the viewer to touch it. Unfortunately, we usually only encounter art in museums and galleries, where the alarm goes off if you get too near (once, at an exhibition of Jacques Lipchitz sculptures, the frustration of this got the better of me and I had to plead for mercy with the guards.) Some art awakens entirely different desires, compelling the viewer instead to talk about it, to stare at it, to look away from it, to imitate it or to think about it. The work by Museum School...
...determined individuals. Kolata celebrates the obscure scientists who did the scut work, which included collecting tissue samples from bodies moldering in permafrost for eight decades. Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington didn't have to go far. While searching through the institute's museum of diseased body parts ("a Library of Congress of the Dead," says Kolata), Taubenberger found a lung scrap from an Army private who died on Sept...
Both Artschwager and Bleckner are contemporary artists who have received a great degree of renown and acclaim. In recent years, the Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of Artschwagers work and the Guggenheim did the same for Bleckner. This exhibition at Harvard features a small selection of the recent work of each artist. Artschwagers six sculptures, all untitled, were constructed in 1995-1996. Bleckners works in oil on linen, also all untitled, were painted this year. Neither artist provides clues for the viewer as to how to interpret their enigmatic work...