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| Sam Richardson A Very Thick Layer of Summer Overcast Extending Inland Near Antioch, California 1969 painted polyurethane, plexiglas, resin Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Isamu Noguchi Model for Swimming Pool for von Sternberg 1935 bronze Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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| Bruce Nauman Eye-Level Piece 1966 painted cardboard Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Hans Arp Star in a Dream 1958 bronze Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Paul Feeley Jack 1966 gilded fiberglass on steel base Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Alexander Calder Hair Comb ca. 1940 gilt brass Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| William Harper Nine Tantric Amulets for Jasper Johns 1994 enameled gold and silver Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Mickey Johnston Bang-le Bracelet 1997 forged steel, gold, diamonds, pearl Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Bob Winston Bracelet 1948 silver, brass, turquoise Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ira Sherman Wristlet 1986 gold Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Arman (Armand Fernandez) Trashcan 1959 found objects and detritus in plexiglas case Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Louise Bourgeois Germinal 1967 and 1992 marble Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |
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| Constantin Brâncusi Fish 1926 bronze, base metal and wood Tate Modern, London |
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| Alberto Giacometti Spoon Woman 1926-27 bronze Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Man Ray Lampshade 1920 painted metal Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe Untitled (Blue Underwear) 1970 assemblage of textile garment and painted wood Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Jud Nelson Hefty 2-Ply 1979-82 marble Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
from Screened Porch
The stars were foolish, they were not worth waiting for.
The moon was shrouded, fragmentary.
Twilight like silt covered the hills.
The great drama of human life was nowhere evident –
but for that, you don't go to nature.
The terrible harrowing story of a human life,
the wild triumph of love: they don't belong
to the summer night, panorama of hills and stars.
We sat on our terraces, our screened porches,
as though we expected to gather, even now,
fresh information or sympathy. The stars
glittered a bit above the landscape, the hills
suffused still with a faint retroactive light.
Darkness. Luminous earth. We stared out, starved for knowledge,
and we felt, in its place, a substitute:
indifference that appeared benign.
– Louise Glück (2001)