Word: plinths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impressive; rather, it's their blunt originality, a drama of spatial conception that seems quite new but is presented matter-of-factly. In Serra's view the most important change in 20th-century sculpture occurred when it ceased to be statuary, when it came down off its pedestal, the plinth that isolated it from the rest of the world, and entered the space, public or private, in which its audience lived and moved. Walking through these works--from outside to inside and back again, and in the case of the double ellipses, which have one "room" inside another, moving along...
...handwritten draft of the earl's famous funeral oration. There, on a lakeside garden temple, is a plaque with Diana's words, "Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running, wherever they are." And, finally, on an island in the lake, unreachable, are the plinth and urn that commemorate her burial place...
...After all, what's not to love? Crime is down, commerce is booming and Wall Street is going crazy (mostly in a positive sense). So much so, Manhattan and its boroughs have toppled the plinth of last year's winner: The Microsoft-and-mocha metropolis of Seattle...
...they were delivered from the stage of London's new Globe theater, a remarkable replica of Shakespeare's original "wooden O." Located on the south bank of the Thames only a tuppence's throw from the site of the original, the new Globe is relentlessly authentic, from its brick plinth foundation and English oak beams right up to its thatched roof, which opens to the sky, and maybe the rain, in the center. But the Globe is more than just the ultimate theme park for Shakespeare fanatics. It is also the arena for a fresh and fascinating style of Shakespeare...
...Hendrik Verwoerd, the mastermind of apartheid, died by an assassin's hand on the floor of South Africa's House of Assembly (the scuffle marks are still visible), and his bronze bust continues to glower from its plinth in the old entrance hall. One imagines he would never have countenanced the vibrant scene last week, as the House opened its new session complete with tribal dress in the back benches. But Verwoerdian notions about decorum, among other topics, no longer hold sway in a government whose face has changed dramatically overnight. Parliament, with its stuffy, Westminster-style affectations, has already...