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...stage a "Day of Action" by picketing Home Depot, the mammoth building-supply chain (sales last year: $24 billion). Customers will be offered "rain forest tours" through the store, spotlighting products made with trees from pristine, old-growth forests around the world: dowels and tool handles of ramin wood from Southeast Asia, doors of Amazon mahogany, cedar shingles and Douglas fir lumber from the temperate rain forests of North America, lauan plywood from the Philippines and Indonesia...
...subjects of these pieces do little justice to Mansen's art, since, as he says and a work like Studio implies, his subject, ultimately, is the artistic object itself. Mansen speaks convincingly of the care he takes in choosing the discarded lumber and furniture he uses to make his wood blocks, how the difficult process of woodcut creates a beneficial restraint that painting lacks. One cannot even begin to describe a work like "Das Haus" (The House), three 24-foot prints which depict all the residents of a house, and their activities. Mansen comments: "Over the past 15 years...
...Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Pellegrino University Professor emeritus was the lead signatory of an open letter asking for a comprehensive review of chip milling, a highly automated technique used to convert logs into wood chips for pulp and paper...
...average chip mill can convert about 10,000 acres of forest into wood chips each year, Ellenbogen said...
According to the museum display, the mayor was accused of illicit sexual relations as well as "making a door for his private house from wood belonging to the palace, looting a sealed house, numerous thefts and kidnapping." All this and more is waiting for you at the Semitic Museum...