Displayed together, Mr. Broodthaers's work collapses several mediums — painting, literature, film and sculptural display — and yet retains the salient features of each one.
The Pont des Arts is just a little footbridge and is now holding 93 metric tonnes from the locks; regularly the grill work collapses.
The Adventures of Electra Elf, a satirical public-access superhero show that was probably his most popular work, collapsed.
They feel if the oil companies pack up and leave, which they could, then hundreds of thousands would be out of work, collapsing their entire economy.
More than mere innovations in the mediums of woodcut and monotype, these works collapse distinctions between original and copy.
In 1991, when he was 29, a scaffold on which he was working collapsed, sending him crashing 20 feet to a concrete floor.
At least 37 gold miners died and many others were injured in the Central African Republic when a pit in which they were working collapsed after heavy rains, the president's office said Monday.
However much of it was summoned out of the ether by computer wizardry, all the hardware looks thoroughly corporeal and persuasive: the torpedoes running in shallow water, the ships' upper works collapsing, the occasional unlucky zero being brought down by small-arms fire.
A year ago today, over 1,100 Bangladeshi garment workers lost their lives when, despite prior warnings, the building in which they were working collapsed.
Next year, he will take "Secret Mary" and "poem" and one other new work and collapse them into yet another dance, the next step in his ongoing investigation.
