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...color in these paintings -- generally strokes of earth green and rubbed patches of raw umber -- but the prevalent hue of the gray-to-silver monochrome seems to change from canvas to canvas, emitting different tints of light. Marden scrapes back and sandpapers the canvas, leaving the ghosts of one layer of paint behind the other; this subtlety (the equivalent of the nuances inside the coats of wax in his earlier work) plays off against the roughness of the lines. Sometimes a whole web of dark line gets canceled, whited out, but roughly -- on those thin grounds nothing can be concealed...
There was more grim news last week about the ozone layer, which wards off the sun's deadliest radiation. A U.N. advisory panel reported that serious atmospheric ozone depletion has spread from the polar regions to temperate climes -- and is worse than anyone thought. In the past decade the amount of ozone over the continental U.S. has decreased between 4% and 8%. Scientists knew that man-made chlorofluorocarbons caused some ozone loss in the temperate zones during winter and early spring, but now there also seem to be "significant" decreases in summer when people expose the most skin...
...from whom Meier claims stylistic influence, and the basic form of this building -- a five- story cylinder whose salient interior feature is a broad ramp that follows the building's curve as it descends -- suggests Wright's Guggenheim Museum with the sides straightened and one large slice of the layer cake removed...
...Bear's Place-at 10 Brookline St. in Cambridge. Thursday: TBA with Tony Mammone, Cul-de-Sac and Dredd Foole. Friday: Fatima Mansions with Live and The Stand. Saturday: TBA with Sidewalk Gallery and Life In Between. Sunday: Flour with Steve Albini and Arc Welder and Brick Layer Cake...
...only one succeeds. The instant it tunnels its way past the egg's outer layer, an electric charge fires across the membrane and a signal from the sperm causes the eggshell to snap shut, blocking entry to any remaining contenders. The successful seed then releases its tightly coiled package of DNA, which fuses with the egg's own DNA and sets in motion a series of genetic events that culminate, nine months later, in the birth of a new human being...