Word: collectionitis
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That market tug has been a decade in the making. The biggest miners, dealers and a marketing organization they finance called the Tanzanite Foundation are gearing up to try out some of the strategies that worked in South Africa on other markets, beginning in London and New York City. The...
Just one thing is missing from the museum: modern art. Since its opening last July, the place has seemed oddly empty. Unlike its more established peers - Paris' Pompidou Center, Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, New York City's Museum of Modern Art - the Grand-Duc Jean (named after the sovereign who...
The emptiness is also starting to dissipate. The museum's permanent collection, 250 works and growing, includes such delights as Wim Delvoye's interior of a gothic chapel, made of metal and punctuated by stained-glass windows depicting body parts, and Tobias Putrih and Sancho Silva's plywood shapes that...
Perhaps part of the misunderstanding comes from the new museum’s initial role as a temporary home for the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums’ collections. The two museums will be undergoing several years of renovations beginning in the summer of 2008. When the Allston museum opens...
Dedicated Lamont lovers hardly pay any attention to John, a daily fixture in the Ginsberg Reading Room. Unlike most of the other scholars, John is not bent over stacks of books or Facebook stalking on his laptop: instead, he prefers to peruse Lamont’s extensive newspaper-on-a...