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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Prose had no frame for this, so Leonardo had to content himself with his "Deluge" drawings, tiny visions of infinite destruction, matter hurled and distended into its components through the vortexes that were his signs for primordial energy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: He Drew Like An Angel | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

That night, I visited the Double Nine Gallery, which hosts monthly exhibits of contemporary artwork, to meet up with my seaweed-artist friend, Yu. "I am so happy that the peasants took my seaweed," he said. "It adds the final step to the evolution of life symbolized in that artwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nanjing, It's Art for Art's Sake | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

Just before the Cambrian, however, something big happened. The deep oceans were made oxygen rich and sulfide poor, Knoll believes, when an unusual spate of undersea landslides (triggered by the breakup of a primordial supercontinent) buried megatons of oxygen-consuming debris. Virtually simultaneously, microscopic algae spread far and wide. For...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paleontology: Fossil Finder | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

O.K., but great art is born all the time out of what is loud, vivid and swaggering, or even conventional and sentimental--in short, out of the primordial ooze of low culture. Consider the modern novel. In the hands of a master like Philip Roth, it can register the smallest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Best | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

All these measurements pretty much agreed with one another, confirming that the lumps scientists saw were real, not some malfunction in the telescopes. And two weeks ago, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey confirmed that this primordial lumpiness has carried over into modern times. The five-year mission of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

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