Word: objections
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...think in any case, it is good for museums to keep their own collection, because it means that things may be done with the objects that [they] might not be able to do with loans," Ebbinghaus says. "For instance, we have a conservation lab, and we can do technical research and give permission to do testing, which we would never get from a country that had an object on loan...
...between the excavations and architectural studies.” Faculty in HAA stress the importance of this early access to fieldwork. “Right from the very beginning, they’ll know what it’s like to go out into the field and work with objects,” says Jeffrey F. Hamburger, a HAA professor. “Art historians have to get out to the objects that they study.”“The undergraduate excursion is about introducing students to the objects. It’s about going out and studying...
...magna cum laude in 1968. Ten years later, she found herself assigned to the paper’s Washington bureau as the Supreme Court correspondent—a beat she has held ever since.Greenhouse’s seniority and studied attention to her subject matter made her an object of tremendous respect among her colleagues in Washington, said Jeffrey R. Toobin ’82 a former Crimson editorial chair who covers the courts for The New Yorker magazine.Never was Greenhouse’s influence more evident, Toobin said, than the December evening when the Supreme Court passed...
...Scientists already knew that similar to the way a fingertip moves across a surface, the 50 or so hairs on a rat's cheek vibrate against an object to perceive its shape and texture. The video technology revealed the fluid micromotions of the whiskers, which send signals to the brain where they're interpreted as a sensory experience. What's more, the scientists were also able to study how different kinds of whiskers transmit different kinds of sensations. Short hairs, which are located on the front of the snout, transmit higher frequencies and vibrate fastest, while longer whiskers, which...
...anything goes" then skill, craft, sensuous handling, emotions, the artist's personal expression and artistic originality are all optional - "art" can be any object untransformed, just presented in a gallery and given a title. Andy Warhol ran with this idea in the 1960s, and so do Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst today. Art students are in awe of it. It was Duchamp who invented this concept, and his friends Ray and Picabia remained fascinated by it all their lives, even if they didn't wholly practice it; Ray used a lot of different materials, from photography to collage, and Picabia...