Word: tate
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...renovating the power plant, Harvard would have the opportunity to create a facility with world renown, possibly leading to increased donations of contemporary art. The museum would likely be viewed as the Tate Modern’s little brother or sister, a comparison that could result in some cooperation between the University and that institution, which would not be a bad older sibling to have...
Start with an outmoded power generation plant. Hire a high-profile architect. Remove the unused equipment and renovate the interior. Add a collection of contemporary works of art. The result? The bankside Tate Modern in London—or Harvard’s new museum for contemporary art on the Charles River...
...come across like choirboys. But the Florida teenagers were sentenced last November to eight and seven years in prison, respectively, after admitting that they had bludgeoned their father to death with a baseball bat. The previous year brought two other trials of Florida kids who had committed murder: Lionel Tate, also 14, got a life sentence for beating a 6-year-old playmate to death, and Nathaniel Brazill, another 14-year-old, was sent to prison for 28 years for killing his middle-school teacher...
...look? The Art of Shopping American artist Barbara Kruger is credited with paraphrasing Descartes to say: "I shop, therefore I am." The world's favorite pastime is celebrated in the exhibition, "Shopping: a Century of Art and Consumer Culture," at Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle until Dec. 1, then at Tate Liverpool from Dec. 20 to March 23. One of Kruger's pieces, two huge eyes under the legend, you love it, you dream it, you need it, you buy it, you forget it, is too big to fit in the museum, so it covers the four-story facade...
...believed. "There is no substitute for the personal experience of these paintings," says Ann Temkin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Barnett Newman," curated by Temkin, offers the chance to encounter the full power of this artist. A joint project of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and London's Tate Modern, the show is Newman's first major retrospective since 1972 and runs at the Tate until Jan. 5, 2003. Newman lived the clich? of the struggling artist: born in New York in 1905, the son of Jewish-Polish immigrants, he put aside his artistic ambitions to labor...