Photographer Henry Leutwyler “doesn’t shy away from capturing the difficulties, rigor and pain that inform the life of a dancer, but he also offers a poetic glimpse of its beauty, the camaraderie of shared endeavor and the sheer joy of moving through space.”
Tag: (slide
Quentin Tarantino On Being A Middle-School Dropout
“The fact that I would quit in middle school just shows how little of the world that I knew. I thought the way it was in middle school would be the way it was going to be forever. I didn’t even realize that college would be different from ninth grade. I just thought it was more school.”
The Best Book Cover Designs Of 2012
“We asked people in and around the world of graphic design to name one of their favorite book covers from 2012 and briefly describe its appeal. The results follow.”
Emily Dickinson’s Furniture (She Spent A Lot Of Time With It)
“Something about the fact that she never left the house lends her personal things a more meaningful tone – she spent every day surrounded by these things, and her experiences were so limited that we find ourselves looking for answers in every teacup.”
Zaha Hadid-Designed Broad Art Museum Opens At Michigan State Univ.
The 43,000 square-foot, $40 million building, sheathed in large panels of pleated stainless steel and glass, features (of course – this is Zaha) very, very few right angles.
Corcoran Gallery Abandons Plan To Leave DC
“The Corcoran Gallery of Art will remain in its historic home near the White House after all, museum leaders said Monday, ending six months of angst and uncertainty over one of the strangest Washington real estate deals that never happened.”
The Man Who Transformed Yale’s Art Gallery
“Jock Reynolds, the director of the Yale University Art Gallery, likes to say that when he took over in 1998, the collection … had grown so large that its landmark Louis Kahn building resembled an ‘old sock drawer.’ The museum could show only a small fraction of its holdings, and some works had been in storage so long that even the curators had never seen them.”
Architect Oscar Niemeyer, 104
“[He] was among the last of a long line of Modernist true believers who stretch from Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe to the architects who defined the postwar architecture of the late 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. He is best known for designing the government buildings of Brasilia, a sprawling new capital carved out of the Brazilian savanna.”
Glorious Seascapes, Seen In The Tiniest Waves
“The swell of the water, the familiar tube – this looks like a perfect surfing wave, but it is only a few centimetres high. Photographer DebM specialises in capturing tiny waves breaking on the Australian coast in what she calls Waveart.”
How Complicated Is It To Build An Organ? Even More Than You Think
Wendelin Eberle, head of the Austrian firm Rieger Orgelbau, talks about everything from the metal content of pipes to what kinds of trees to use for wood (it varies according to climate and conditions at the organ’s location) to how to suspend a 37-ton instrument from a ceiling. (Then there was the time they were trapped at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem by Palestinian militants.)