When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

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Torquing Torus

It very rare for Richard Serra
man of steel, to sculpt in error.
The shapes that he creates evoke
dunes, canyons and ravines. Baroque
the influence of all these curves.
Perhaps Borromini deserves
some credit for the inspiration
for their expressive undulation,
although, ingratiating, lavish,
his expertise inclines to ravish
as, torquing torus with inversion,
with parasexual perversion
it transforms alchemistically steel
into raw spaces where you feel
the presence of a dying numen
within the crevasse of the lumen
where people walk and need not climb
to sense a terror that’s sublime.

Michael Kimmelman reviews a retrospective exhibition of Richard Serra of sculptures at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, “Man of Steel, ” NYT, June 1,2007) :

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poem by Gershon Hepner
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History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

quote by Robert Smithson
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Museum of Culture

Preserving the culture has been like the tusk of mastodons,
This is only suitable for preserving in the billiard balls,
Sustaining the culture has been like the extinct saber truth,
That is only suitable for experimental use.

Other customs are influencing on the real ones,
Like Mongols of east, east culture is ruling west,
And, as barbarians of west, west cultures have come to east,
So, preserving it has been a museum’s job.

In the show case of museum our tradition is seeing the change,
Youth are busy copying other’s tradition,
All are getting puzzled in culture,
Can’t we once again retain our own ethnicity?
The clear answer I hear is ‘no’.
Thanks to Museum of culture which is dong it.

poem by Sambidhan Acharya
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Taiwan Contemporary Arts Museum
anybody to paint the attendants
posing round here?

senryu by John Tiong Chunghoo
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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

quote by George Santayana
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The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

quote by Xavier Becerra
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I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

quote by Robert T. Bakker
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

quote by Jack Levine
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I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

quote by George Gaylord Simpson
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We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

quote by Rudolf Bing
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Taiwan Contemporary Arts Museum
at every section, a lady attendant
longing to be painted

senryu by John Tiong Chunghoo
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

quote by John Burroughs
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I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

quote by Daniel Libeskind
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If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.

quote by Elizabeth Perkins
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

quote by Edmond De Goncourt
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I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

quote by Pierre Loti
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Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.

quote by George Segal
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We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

quote by Nicholas Lea
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Disaster

Fish gathered
At the Sea bed
And It seems to be a big conference.
Curator, An Octopus reads the Protocol.
'Why these cruel human beings spill oil in our region?
They must find an alternative instead of oil.
We innocents travel without fuel
And never pollute the Ocean.
When these cut-throats learn the manners they invented? '

poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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