February will see winners announced for the us Department of Agriculture's Tall wood building Prize, which many hope will inspire serious innovation with wood as an urban building material.

二月将会产生美国农业部颁发的木建筑奖的获奖者，这或许能够激励木材作为城市建筑材料的革新。

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The title of his first exhibition devoted to this material, "Statuary in Wood by African Savages: The Root of Modern Art" (1914) captures both the innovation and the contradictions of this debut.

WSJ: Americans' African Inspiration | African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde | Metropolitan Museum of Art | By Michael FitzGerald