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Extra: ART – An exhibit which takes viewers beyond the frames.

The Corcoran Gallery of Art in WashingtonD.C. has recently opened an exhibit entitled “Beyond the Frame: Impressionism Revisited” featuring the sculptures of J. Seward Johnson Jr.

Mr. Johnson, an heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, has made a career out of creating public art. Johnson takes famous paintings and transforms into life-sized sculptures. According to Johnson, he wanted people to be able to step inside most famous paintings in the world.

Although the art critics did not consider Mr. Johnson a serious artist, his unique, whimsical sculptures have always been popular with the public. The Corcoran exhibition features re-creation of celebrated Impressionist-era works by Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh. Each work is life-sized, metal sculptures of a famous work. Visitors are invited to enter the pieces and explore them. Those who do so quickly discover that Johnson has added something to the pieces: little extras, which are often quite humorous.

The exhibition features more than 20 life-sized scenes. Johnson’s work can also be seen at Grounds for Sculpture, a part that he built just outside of Princeton, New Jersey.

The Wrong Stuff: Junk In Space Station

THERE’S NO SPACE IN THE SPACE STATION

With shuttle on hold, trash day never comes.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – So a few weeks ago, the two astronauts who live there tossed out some useless junk. Only this stuff floated away in space. And the throwing-away (done during a recent spacewalk) was done cautiously so that the discarded antenna covers and expired pump panel did not become deadly boomerangs.

Such is life in space, post-Columbia.

With no garbage pickup by shuttles for nearly two years, the International Space Station is more and more resembling a cluttered attic. “Room limited” is how astronaut Mike Fincke describes it.“It’s at the point where we have to figure out a way to handle it. You can’t just wish it away”.

A barrage of hurricanes and their devastating blow to National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s launch site have delayed the next shuttle flight. By Discovery for at least a couple of months.

Astronaut Michael Foale, another former space station commander, said that even more important than what discovery brings on that first flight will be what it takes away. “It´s essential that when that first shuttle come up, before they do anything, they start to clear out the items that we need to deliver back to Earth on the shuttle” Foale said.

The Russian Space Agency has been sending capsules and supply ships to the station. Little can be returned to Earth in the capsules besides the astronauts themselves, and the cargo ships are cut loose and incinerated in the atmosphere. So only trash goes into the carriers before undocking (empty food containers, dirty clothes, aluminium toilet cartridges full of solid waste).

NASA takes little comfort in the fact that the six-year-old space station isn´t as dingy or messy as Russia´s Mir. “We´re in constrained situation,” said Suzan Voss, manager of the NASA cargo integration office. “But It´s still a safe situation”.