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...emptiness is also starting to dissipate. The museum's permanent collection, 250 works and growing, includes such delights as Wim Delvoye's interior of a gothic chapel, made of metal and punctuated by stained-glass windows depicting body parts, and Tobias Putrih and Sancho Silva's plywood shapes that can be assembled by museumgoers into furniture of their own design. Mudam has purchased a few Majerus paintings, though nearly all those on display have been lent by other museums. The artist remains a favorite of curators worldwide, from London's Tate Modern to Mexico City's Jumex Collection...
...Paper How postmodern can you be? For funky Dutch brand Moooi, Antwerp outfit Studio Job has mimicked the monumental forms of old-fashioned floor lamps, cupboards, dressers, dining tables and even chandeliers in paper and plywood. Is the Paper range flat-packing for the pretentious? Who cares? IKEA has never been this much fun. www.moooi.com...
...interrogators ordered him to strip to his underpants and gave him a brown dishdasha, the traditional Arabic robe, which he wore for the rest of his captivity. He was then taken down two more flights of stairs to a basement holding area that was partitioned with plywood into many small cells--at least 10, possibly more. His home for the next five weeks would be a dirty cell, 5 ft. by 4 ft., with a rough concrete floor. The plywood walls were unpainted and still bore the manufacturer's stamp in a foreign script he speculates was Korean. The walls...
Last year, Harvard biologist Andrew A. Biewener and then-grad student Monica A. Daley made seven helmeted guinea fowl—birds similar to pheasants—dash down a 20-foot-long plywood runway. Not just any old plywood runway, mind you, but one equipped with a device that measures force and a high-speed digital video camera...
Running on the plywood track, the fowl had to traverse a hidden 8.5-centimeter-deep pothole camouflaged by tissue paper...