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...that of the Bayon's famous Buddhist builder, Jayavarman VII, is for Zhou simply a "gold tower." The few times he does play the amateur art historian or archaeologist, he gets it wrong, as when he mistakes a massive recumbent bronze Vishnu (now at Phnom Penh's National Museum) for a Buddha sculpture...
This is all sound logic, to be sure - but that's exactly why it may be wrong. "Very rarely is there actually a functional reason for a fashion rule," notes Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. True enough: it's hard to think of a workaday downside to pairing your black shoes with a brown belt. (See pictures of Pope Benedict's fashion looks...
...Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, which memorializes those who died in war - including, inconveniently, a number of convicted war criminals from World War II. (Don't get me started on the revisionist history of the run-up to World War II - that's putting it politely - in the museum attached to the shrine...
Freshmen entering Harvard College this year may be the first to experience the new Harvard Art Museum—if it opens by its scheduled date in 2013. Originally meant to reopen in 2012, the Harvard Art Museum is the renamed, renovated collective of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums. The full renovation has necessitated moving almost the entirety of their 250,000 pieces to an offsite storage facility, a change which continues to affect students and art aficionados looking to appreciate the Harvard collections. “In order to start the renovation process, the entire collection needs...
...will better inform ongoing decisions that people need to make," says Jane Lubchenco, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). "There's an urgent need for ongoing, relevant information about climate change - and there's no current mechanism for providing that." (Watch TIME's video "American Museum of Natural History's Climate-Change Exhibition...