A priority for Republicans but anathema to many Democrats, the program was rolled in to a huge,
multipart spending measure that Republican leaders were expected to present for adoption in the House and Senate by early this week.
But the standout was Kobayashi's Jewels (2015), a
multipart conceptual narrative connecting the artist's grandmother Fumiko (a jeweler's daughter and radiologist's wife) and a Japanese nuclear scientist, Satoyasu Limori, who
spent the war years researching radioactive ore near Fukushima — and went on to invent synthetic jewels.