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Galleries around the world are falling for the Campanas' tropical charms. Their Vitoria Regia stools, named after the giant water lilies of the Amazon River, recently featured in the garden of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art is including the brothers in its "Space for Your Future" exhibition (Oct. 27 to Jan. 20, 2008). Favela chic seems to offer pointers for sustainable living. "It is our job to find beauty and meaning in the everyday," Humberto has said. The siblings wove wicker around cheap plastic seats to create larger, sculptural but still functional...
...high attendance resulted from the large group of supporters and friends who came to hear the lead speakers at the dinner—Hamilton E. “Tony” James ’73, president of the Blackstone Group, and Agnes Gund, former president of the Museum of Modern Art. And HBSCNY had no intention of holding on to the extra cash. “We are not a foundation,” Marcus explained. “The agreement was that any excess funds would be given to educational non-profits in New York City...
...curator of the Museum of Modern art in the early 1950s, he organized perhaps the most ambitious, most successful photo exhibition of all time, The Family of Man - 503 shots of shared human experiences gathered from around the world. Edward Steichen Lives in Photography concludes with a large, computerized, virtual reconstruction of the Family of Man. Steichen - the perfectionist, innovator and promoter - would have loved...
Condemnation was swift. Watson arrived in the U.K. midweek to promote his new book, which will be out Oct. 22. He was scheduled to speak Friday at the Science Museum in London, but the museum announced the day before that it would cancel the event, as Watson had "gone beyond the point of acceptable debate." The University of Edinburgh then axed Watson's scheduled appearance for Monday, calling the scientist's remarks "entirely incompatible with the spirit" of the lecture series in which he was supposed to participate. And an event organizer in Bristol, which had booked the DNA pioneer...
...squat, short, and bloated creature, reminiscent of a turkey crossed with an albatross, stands immobile behind the glass in Harvard’s Natural History Museum. The display’s other extinct birds, such as the puffin-life Great Auk, attest to this one’s rarity. But Harvard’s dodo hides a darker secret.“It’s just a replica made from duck and chicken feathers,” said Jeremiah Trimble, the curatorial associate in ornithology at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology who dusts the model from...