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Galleries around the world are falling for the Campanas' tropical charms. Their Vitoria Regia stools, named after the giant water lilies of the Amazon River, recently featured in the garden of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art is including the brothers in its "Space for Your Future" exhibition (Oct. 27 to Jan. 20, 2008). Favela chic seems to offer pointers for sustainable living. "It is our job to find beauty and meaning in the everyday," Humberto has said. The siblings wove wicker around cheap plastic seats to create larger, sculptural but still functional...
Another of the six sites that EPA claims to have successfully cleaned is in Baltimore, where strong acids and aqua regia, one of the most corrosive liquids in existence, had been stored throughout the 1970s. For years, residents in 20 row houses along Annapolis Road complained of eye, nose and throat irritation; eight people were burned in July 1979 when chemicals leaked into a playing area. EPA removed 1,500 drums and scraped off up to twelve inches of topsoil. The land was sloped and sodded and declared fit for a playground. But critics cite tests showing that the contamination...
...York's wildlife enthusiasts were delighted to spot a rare specimen of Regia britannicus in their city last week. Britain's Prince Philip, 59, conservationist husband of Queen Elizabeth, nested in Manhattan just long enough to preside at a $400-a-person dinner benefiting the New York Zoological Society, lecture on wildlife preservation to 2,700 invited guests at Lincoln Center and adroitly dodge questions. At a press conference where he was descended upon by local newshawks (clearly an unendangered species), he stuck to the matter at hand. Asked for his view of the Iran-Iraq...
...abstract expressionism (see overleaf) with its mingling of signature brush strokes, does not seem so far removed in its liquid pastel forms from Pop Artist James Rosenquist's more explicit Fruit Salad. Larry Poons's placement of blue spots on a field of gold in Aqua Regia produces a Mexican-jumping-bean effect of afterimage dots; yet he has no more corner on optical effects than Bonnard, whom one young first-nighter enjoyed as "a guy who used phosphorescent, Day-glo paint before the stuff was invented or used...
...tank room, tried to stop the leak with a new flange. When the air cylinders for their masks were empty and they came up to the street to change them, their faces and necks showed bright red acid burns; 38 were affected, one had to be hospitalized. Because aqua regia attacks pipes and pumps so avidly, it took three days to find resistant equipment to load it into a tank truck for neutralization and disposal in New Jersey...