Word: replica
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...sculpture “Light-Space Modulator” to Harvard’s Fogg museum. Her husband, the prominent Bauhaus artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, created the piece. Moholy-Nagy was consistently troubled by its preservation and attempts by the museum’s curators to make a working replica to avoid damage to the original. The object files for the sculpture, currently in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, are full of subtly barbed letters between Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and the museum’s director.Moholy-Nagy was born in Dresden in 1903. In the late...
...helped put his Dia:Beacon on the international map. Chris Burden is readying more than 200 historic lampposts, and Robert Irwin is curating a garden of palm trees. If all goes according to plan, expect a 161-ft. (49 m) crane dangling a 70-ft. (21.3 m) train replica courtesy of Jeff Koons, plus a 400-ton Michael Heizer rock, which Govan boasts will be "one of the largest monolithic objects moved since ancient times...
...from his very contemporary office. Across the room, artist John Baldessari's photograph of the New York City skyline doubles as a window shade through which to watch cars whizzing along Wilshire. A wall-size photograph displays what looks like the city's iconic Hollywood sign but is a replica created in Palermo, Italy, by conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan...
...union Des Musées Nationaux French museums club together and peddle products from this online shop. The replica jewelry looks startlingly modern, like the Lydian pierced-disk pendant ($58-$330, various sizes and materials) - based on one found in a 6th century B.C. tomb in what is now Turkey. The gilt-bead necklace - the original comes from Iron Age Tréglonou, Brittany - has a definite touch of class ($209). www.museesdefrance.com...
...about who comes out on top. Taking advantage of Middleton's raging literary libido, Taylor is promoting the book with a lecture tour on sex in Middleton's plays - he'll kick things off at the Nov. 21 book launch at Shakespeare's Globe theater in London, a working replica of the theater where several Shakespeare and Middleton works were originally performed...