Word: painting
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...Collings, author of This Is Modern Art. Others call it an uplifting tribute to womankind. But more interesting than the reactions it provokes are the ones it doesn't. If the sculpture has met with less than universal acclaim, it has also failed to spark much outrage or spray-paint protest. In that sense, Alison Lapper Pregnant may reveal a city and a society more comfortable with itself than it has been for a long time...
Putting Bugs in the Paint...
...probably never thought your average house paint could help solve the world energy crunch. But Michael Flickinger, 54, founding director of the University of Minnesota's Biotechnology Institute, has found a way to make hydrogen--and then electricity--from genetically engineered bacteria embedded in the adhesive latex polymer particles that form the basis of most paints. Thinly coated onto plastic or metals, the polymers, which are infused with bacteria, are permeable to gases and nutrients. The coatings--about two-thirds the thickness of a sheet of paper--jump to life when exposed to light and begin making hydrogen gas, which...
...lessons I learned could inform anyone going into the exhibit tabula rasa.In designing the exhibit, Wolohojian says that “the point was to offer a way to establish some kind of dialogue” between Degas’ varied works. The exhibit’s selection of paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures drawn from Harvard collections spans most of Degas’ life. Iconic Degas images of ballet dancers and women bathing are paired with informal portraits of Degas’ family members and an abstract landscape he painted late in his career.Wolohojian did not suggest a specific...
...little to the storyline, one wonders if her only purpose is to serve as eye candy for the testosterone-charged twenty-something viewer. Her subplot—Dr. Foster discovers that Lila is no longer taking her Klonopin pills because she claims she can’t truly paint when she’s on the medication—unfortunately, fizzles out with pedantic apologetic dialogue, like “We have to trust each other.” Who knows why Watts, one of the hottest actresses working today, took such a menial, if not blatantly unnecessary role...