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...Beneath the sly gaze of three security guards, it was motored out," said Funke, who added that he thought that neither students nor the guards hired to provide security for the party saw the students remove the object from the house...
Students moved the Fu dog across the dining hall by telling party organizers that someone had urinated on it, according to Shiuan Liu '95, an Adams resident who helped organize the party during which the object was taken...
Both men realized how things already made of iron could be brought into sculpture, thus extending the aesthetics of assemblage and the found object. To see Picasso's joining two tin half-spheres -- kitchen colanders -- to form the cranium of Head of a Woman, 1929-30, or Gonzalez's recycling what appears to be a pair of scythe blades as the wings of a creature midway between angel and praying mantis, is to witness plays of the dreaming, free-associating, punning mind that seem fundamental to modernism. Iron, in the form of objects that could be almost randomly brought together...
Giacometti, by contrast, did not work in iron at all; every object by him in this show is cast bronze. He is included, presumably, because of his relations to Picasso through the Surrealist figure, because of his influence on Smith and because of the linearity of his style -- an obsessive thinning out of sculptural mass that is nevertheless modeled in a wholly traditional way on an armature, and never welded. It's true that Giacometti tended increasingly to think of sculpture as a means of connecting points in space, rather than of setting volume imposingly before...
Some might still object to Powell because they believe him to represent a faulty conception of justice. But it seems to me that the condemnation as well as the praise of General Colin Powell stem from one source--Powell knows his job and he does it extraordinarily well. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of either President Clinton or Congress...