- San Francisco’s de Young Museum was damaged in the 1989 earthquake. Plans are well along to rebuild. But “if local community activists have their way, the design for the ambitious $135 million project will soon be subjected to a process that many observers believe could doom it. And although the proposed building, by acclaimed Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron Architekten AG, has been hailed by those culturally-in-the-know as a masterpiece of contemporary Modernism, it has come in for some blistering criticism from an unexpected quarter: other architects.” – Metropolis
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FREEZE FRAME
Eccentric Englishman Eadweard Muybridge discovered the photographic system that would revolutionize scientific understanding and the process for naturalist art. Was this dedicated craftsmen “a mad scientist, promoting his lab experiments as photographic art? Or was he an artistic opportunist, using science to gratify his flair for fantasy?” – Civilization
FREEZE FRAME
Eccentric Englishman Eadweard Muybridge discovered the photographic system that would revolutionize scientific understanding and the process for naturalist art. Was this dedicated craftsmen “a mad scientist, promoting his lab experiments as photographic art? Or was he an artistic opportunist, using science to gratify his flair for fantasy?” – Civilization
EAST AFRICAN ART FOR 200
What Ugandan city is the birthplace East Africa’s modern art movement? To what neighboring city did Ugandan artists flee during the political unrest of the 1970’s? What year was the first academy established for the study of modern art? Check your answers here. – Legacy (Africa)
CROSSING OVER
Kurt Weill is seen as a composer who lost his way in America, who sold his artistic birthright for the pottage of commercial success. But today Weill’s embrace of popular music seems prophetic rather than opportunistic. When so much classical music aspires to the condition of pop, Weill – the first classical composer to reject high for low – seems a model of crossover. – The Atlantic
PAVING OVER HISTORY
Developers, archaeologists, and Greek government officials are the players in the dramatic story of the new six-lane Athens-Thessaloniki national highway in Greece. The new road, which passes over the ancient city of Alos, has spurred over 25 new excavations and put scholars on the trail to new discoveries on antiquity. Unfortunately, the Greek Ministry for the Environment and Public Works, which seems to be calling all the wrong shots, may end up destroying some of the precious works they’ve set out to save. – Archaeology
CROSSING OVER
Kurt Weill is seen as a composer who lost his way in America, who sold his artistic birthright for the pottage of commercial success. But today Weill’s embrace of popular music seems prophetic rather than opportunistic. When so much classical music aspires to the condition of pop, Weill – the first classical composer to reject high for low – seems a model of crossover. – The Atlantic