Two U.S. museums have taken the wraps off their latest acquisitions, revealing summer surprises that rank high as novelties and hold their own as modern art.
¶ In Manhattan last week the Metropolitan Museum proudly unveiled a brand-new, glittering gold-wire construction that at first glance looked like a jumbo-sized Christmas-tree decoration from Cartiers:
U.S. Sculptor-Welder Richard Lippold's Variation Within a Sphere, No. 10; The Sun. For the Met, which specially commissioned The Sun, Lippold outdid himself, labored three years putting together, with 14,000 hand-welded joints, almost two miles of 22-carat gold-filled wire. Hung...
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