Word: sarcophaguses
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...hundred other images. AMMI's apex is Tut's Fever, an Egyptian-style movie palace conceived by Artists Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong. Grooms' impish sculptures staff the theater: Theda Bara sits in the box office; Mae West sells you candy; Mickey Rooney is the usher; a sarcophagus creaks open to reveal the late James Dean. In the theater auditorium, its walls a splurge of film-trivia graffiti, you can watch a silent-movie serial or just gawk at the delirious decor...
...tribal art. But everywhere in the collection one encounters images, large and small, whose intensity comes fairly burning out of the vitrine or off the wall, from a horrendous stone Celtic effigy of the Tarasque, or earth demon, to a gold Byzantine reliquary in the form of a miniature sarcophagus. Their vividness is helped by the subtle and often witty installation carried out by the Menil's director, Walter Hopps. It is not "systematic," presenting objects by period or, rigidly, by style. It tries to reverse the overcategorization that afflicts the presentation of art as a subgenre of pedagogy...
...spill its contents at one's feet. Later, Caravaggio would learn how to combine poses seen in real life with those sanctified by tradition: hence the contrast achieved in the Louvre's Death of the Virgin between the onlookers, as grave and classical as any quoted from a sarcophagus, and the dead Mary, sprawled like a real corpse. He learned to run variations on the idea of decorum; to achieve effects of the utmost stateliness and play them off against the "merely" documentary. His enemies thought this showed a taste for the banal. Today it suggests how little...
...office is unimpressive: regulation furniture, except for a rectangular brown marble desk that sits like a sarcophagus on a chrome stand. There is a glass-and-metal étagère with a stereo and records. An ink sketch of a lion's face with blue eyes hangs on the wall, and there is a small bronze lion on the desk. Jackson tells me he is a Leo. A picture of Michael onstage in a silvery costume hangs above a small table along with two ivory elephant tusks carved into totems. Jackson is nervous, wary. He talks very gently...
...staff have removed large quantities of highly decorated treasures, many of which are on exhibition in Cairo. Aided by 10,000 candlepower lights in the tomb, telephones and all the paraphernalia of civilization and modern archeological science, they are patiently removing and restoring the canopies and accessories surrounding the sarcophagus of the Pharaoh. But the casket itself will probably not be opened this year, nor will two other chambers crammed with rare objects. The chief problem of the investigators is to keep the material reasonably intact. The golden screen is in momentary danger of crumbling to dust...