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...helped put his Dia:Beacon on the international map. Chris Burden is readying more than 200 historic lampposts, and Robert Irwin is curating a garden of palm trees. If all goes according to plan, expect a 161-ft. (49 m) crane dangling a 70-ft. (21.3 m) train replica courtesy of Jeff Koons, plus a 400-ton Michael Heizer rock, which Govan boasts will be "one of the largest monolithic objects moved since ancient times...
...British Museum The shop at the world's oldest national museum has replica sculptures to match every décor. The winged head of Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep ($1,018) suits serene surroundings, and a head of Apollo, god of music, would look good on any piano ($4,024). Eggheads will enjoy playing with a replica Lewis chess set ($200), one of which featured in the first Harry Potter movie. www.britishmuseum.co.uk...
...union Des Musées Nationaux French museums club together and peddle products from this online shop. The replica jewelry looks startlingly modern, like the Lydian pierced-disk pendant ($58-$330, various sizes and materials) - based on one found in a 6th century B.C. tomb in what is now Turkey. The gilt-bead necklace - the original comes from Iron Age Tréglonou, Brittany - has a definite touch of class ($209). www.museesdefrance.com...
...about who comes out on top. Taking advantage of Middleton's raging literary libido, Taylor is promoting the book with a lecture tour on sex in Middleton's plays - he'll kick things off at the Nov. 21 book launch at Shakespeare's Globe theater in London, a working replica of the theater where several Shakespeare and Middleton works were originally performed...
That would describe C.F.A.O., which Puryear completed this year. It consists of an old wheelbarrow that carries a timber framework tower that's over 7 ft. (more than 2 m) tall. Embedded face-first in the nest of wood is a replica of the underside of an African tribal mask...