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- GRAPEVINE, Page 17NO BREATHING ALLOWED
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
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- Should works of art carry a government health warning? A
- piece being displayed at New York City's New Museum of
- Contemporary Art could have used such a caveat. When Eclipse of
- the Earth by Kazuo Katase was installed last month, the work's
- dusty red coloring agent contained zinc sulfide and barium
- sulfate. The chemicals caused severe respiratory and skin
- problems for some employees, they claim. A staff memo admitted
- that "ingestion of the pigment will cause illness, and the
- inhalation of the dust is known to cause lung irritation."
- Although the powder was replaced 12 days later, three workers
- resigned and a fourth entered the hospital for treatment.
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