Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University officials have ordered that asbestos used in some display cases in the museum be covered with special paint that guards against the effects of asbestos, officials said recently...
...display cabinets are being covered with a special paint that is designed to guard against effects of asbestos for about five years...
...pews from the rest of the room. They look odd in this beige Zen-like chamber. There is another door at the back through which the witnesses arrive and sit in the pews. You stare up at two groups of fluorescent lights on the ceiling. They are on. The paint on the ceiling is peeling...
...Robert Rauschenberg is back; but then, the rumors that he had gone away were greatly exaggerated. It is almost 30 years since his "combine" paintings-rebus-like assemblies of every imaginable waste object, from beach tar to stuffed chickens, from electric fans to auto tires, slathered in abstract expressionist paint drips-burst upon the American art world. Nearly two decades, a lifetime for some artists, have elapsed since his first prize at the Venice Biennale (back when the Biennale mattered) heralded the "imperial" entry of American art into Europe. The unwanted reward of a career like Rauschenberg...
...should be. It encompasses the work of one of the very few great designers America has produced. Starting in the late 1920s, James labored in a fine frenzy within the airy precincts of haute couture. He believed himself to be an artist, the equal of anyone who created with paint or plaster, and he died at 72 in 1978, just like the burnt-out creator of so much contemporary myth, broke and broken, working out of a cluttered, crumbling studio at Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel. The show contains some 50 pieces, each a practical study in suspended line, upended...