INSIDE his hovel of branches and rags, a grizzled pauper called Badshah Kale keeps a precious object.
"An owner then or now would not treat it like part of an ensemble but as a precious object".
"There's no difference in a precious object, either displayed at a museum or a store," he said.
She's grown or been assembled into a precious object, gliding through the show with a beauty that's no less impressive for looking vacuum-sealed.
The national pavilions take many forms, yet only a few make any real impact.The fairground atmosphere puts a premium on art as a memorable experience rather than as a precious object.
IN a Lower Manhattan workshop late last summer, Steve Morse opened a crate, gingerly removed a precious object and studied it for minute markings.
The hands-on, hands-off format he's developed -- he's turned video into a precious object, something compact, dense and tightly textured -- is clearly a fertile one.
"Painting should be part of people's lives and not separate from the world, like a precious object," Mr. Keene, 43, has written to explain his approach.
Sit it on a book or two, and suddenly it's a precious object on a pedestal.
Collectors are used to exclusivity you buy a precious object and guard it safely behind closed doors.
The field, under the floodlights, was gleaming green, like some precious object in a box.
