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...Shungang, 36, was relatively lucky. There were few deaths in his neighborhood of Mianyang city. He is now camped out with his family in a parking lot near a museum dedicated to the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai, who lived in the area. A family sits outside a tent nearby, the grandmother's eyes and legs badly bruised from when a house collapsed on her. Conditions in the camp are decent, Jia says, but he wonders how long he will stay. "We don't know how long we'll be here," he says, as a worker walks through with...
That is the work you get in "Robert Rauschenberg: Combines," a sumptuous, witty survey that continues through April 2 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and then moves to Los Angeles, Paris and Stockholm. Combines was Rauschenberg's term for the big, hard-to-classify works?were they paintings? sculptures??that he began making around 1954 and focused on for the next 10 years. With every one of them, he blithely exploded all remaining assumptions about what a work of art was supposed to be by making it into a container for everything...
...advantage of this exhibition, organized by Paul Schimmel of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and installed in its New York City venue by Nan Rosenthal, that it doesn't have to give space to Rauschenberg's all too massive later output, that endless madcap extrusion. The combines were among his indisputable triumphs, and seeing them on their own makes you realize all over again their liberating power. They offer you a puzzle and dare you to unpuzzle it. Go ahead and try?as long as you're not the type who needs all the pieces...
Visitors to Harvard’s Museum of Natural History looking for dinosaurs this month will come across a surprising new exhibition. In place of the usual bones, the museum is showing photographs of leaves in black and white. The museum is not trying to bombard visitors with the unexpected, said Executive Director Elisabeth A. Werby ’72, but attempting to bridge the gap between art and science in the hopes of attracting new crowds to the institution. “We wanted to do something a little edgier, to bring in a new audience who don?...
...press conference, Carmen Marcos, chief coin curator for Spain's National Archaeology Museum, said that limited, preliminary evidence suggested that the pieces of eight recovered from the ship were minted in 1803 in the then-Spanish colony of Peru. "The coins show us that the ship had recently left the port of El Callao in Lima. Of that, there is no doubt," she said. Historical documents that Spain presented today show that the Mercedes left El Callao in April...