A gun was a cannon designed to fire in a flat trajectory, a howitzer was a shorter piece designed to throw exploding shells in an arcing trajectory, and a mortar was a very short piece for firing at elevations of more than 45°.
Titled "Savile Row meets Ivy League," the collection unspooled against a set piece designed to look like the library of a British boarding school.
On each story of the towerlike structure, wooden beams and struts (a structural piece designed to resist pressure in the direction of its length) support a widely projected slanting roof, the struts ascending diagonally from the central structure to the edge of the tiled roof.
Insisting that the mailer was not meant to be a "scare" piece designed to turn the public opinion of seniors against health care reform, Benton clarified her organization's purpose and pledged to consider the reaction the mailer had engendered.
In 2001, conservators at the J. Paul Getty Museum undertook a thorough reexamination of a massive French cabinet long believed to be a fake: a 19th century piece designed to resemble Renaissance-era handiwork.
The project isn't itself political, Squires says, but is, rather, an art piece designed to make viewers question their assumptions about what makes something political.
Fractal Flowers 2015 is an interactive piece designed to "stoop and bow in order to welcome the public into this mysterious virtual garden, then display their most beautiful colors and shapes, merged on colored backgrounds," according to the work's press release.
At first sight, Long Live The Little Knife seems like a more traditional piece designed to be played in a theatre space.
Was it any wonder we thought Swift and Hiddleston's relationship was either fake or a conceptual art piece designed to trap the media?
Under the guidance of a theatre director, a choreographer and a medical ethicist, the production, involving third-year medical students, was an "experimental performance piece" designed to explore the topic of "body donation" to dramatic effect.
