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Since last June, Jessica K. Shang ’08 has been working with Robert J. Wood, a professor of engineering and applied sciences, to construct a four-winged microrobotic dragonfly like the two-winged model Wood previously made...
...sales are controversial, but they go on. In recent weeks Sotheby's has been bringing down the hammer on scores of works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y. The museum is shedding older pieces, like a Shang Dynasty bronze vessel that went for $8.1 million, to fatten its endowment for the purchase of contemporary art. In recent years its fund for that purpose has hovered at about $1 million annually--chump change in the current market. For Louis Grachos, director of the Albright-Knox, the sale simply allows the museum to focus on its chief purpose...
...enormous basin from the 6th century B.C., the largest of its kind outside China. But the true bronze masterpiece is a work older by some 600 years, the so-called Tigress you (wine vessel), which the museum bought after its patron's death. The vase, from the Shang dynasty (roughly 1550 to 1050 B.C.), was used for ancestor worship, and is shaped like an open-jawed feline, with a child either resting in its chest or being devoured. The placid expression on the child's face and the steady posture of the animal suggest that the non-violent interpretation...
...enormous basin from the 6th century B.C., the largest of its kind outside China. But the true bronze masterpiece is a work older by some 600 years, the so-called Tigress you (wine vessel), which the museum bought after its patron's death. The vase, from the Shang dynasty (roughly 1550 to 1050 B.C.), was used for ancestor worship, and is shaped like an open-jawed feline, with a child either resting in its chest or being devoured. The placid expression on the child's face and the steady posture of the animal suggest that the non-violent interpretation...
...months after the official June opening, some exhibits-Shang dynasty daggers and ax heads; a bronze mask, perhaps from the important Sanxingdui find; and Tang ceramics-were still without identification labels. And the collection itself is uneven, though the true masterpieces are carefully set apart from the more mundane offerings. Still, it is tempting to go through the museum wondering what Cernuschi and the curators who followed him could-or should-have bought. Calligraphy from the Han dynasty? Silver and gold ornaments from the Tang dynasty...