“Chicago’s light has dimmed as a capital of architecture. … In fact, the designs that Gehry and Piano have supplied for Chicago point to the twin dangers of ‘star-chitecture’: bombastic, signature gestures on the one hand, predictable products on the other.”
Tag: 05.19.09
Michelle Obama Talks Up Importance Of Arts Education
“The first lady, Michelle Obama, visited New York City on Monday to promote the arts, celebrating opening night at the American Ballet Theater and the reopening of part of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Among her audience at the museum were “dozens of public schoolchildren. ‘This is your place, too,’ she told the children.”
Uruguayan Author Mario Benedetti Dies At 88
“Uruguayan author Mario Benedetti, whose bestselling poems and novels helped launch Latin America’s postwar literary boom, has died. … Benedetti’s more than 60 volumes of poems, prose, essays and drama helped secure a prominent place for Latin America in global literature, along with the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa.”