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Introducing a show of European color photography, which he has curated at Hasted Hunt Gallery, the well-known photographer Martin Parr laments that in "the rather dysfunctional history of colour photography, the seminal exhibition by William Eggleston in 1976 at MOMA . . . is often cited as the start of serious colour photography." He goes on to mention photographer Stephen Shore's contribution "to the establishement and acceptance" of the medium and notes that, before the '70s, "colour work had predominantly been associated with commercial or even snapshot photography."
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Five proposals for the 40-acre park area at the southern half of the island offer the clearest evidence so far of what the island’s future could hold. The designs, commissioned by the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation, should be regarded as preliminary sketches. After the winning design is selected next month, it will no doubt face significant revisions. Even so, the five proposals hold clues to what’s right and wrong about how public space is designed.
It might tell us that it was one of hundreds like it that used to lie quietly in the halls of Paimio sanatorium. Someone then thought tat orange and red go better with the hallmark L legs.
Once known as communes, until the word became overly associated with hippies and other cultural relics of the 1960s and ’70s, intentional communities have a long history in this country, going back to the Shakers and even, I suppose, the Pilgrims. I’d long wanted to visit one, to see how utopian ideals were surviving in the more cynical America of today, and so I logged on to www.ic.org and searched for intentional communities in Wisconsin and Iowa. At first, I found what I had expected: devout Christians, pagan farmers and a polyamorous “family” (my wife, Jean, vetoed that one). Almost all, however, wanted serious members, not casual visitors like me.
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Christy MacLear, executive director of Philip Johnson's Glass House for the National Trust, recognizes the unprecedented nature of the project, but finds it neither sad nor daunting. Ms. MacLear has had to face two major challenges: how to keep something that was always on the lively edge of the new from becoming a lifeless simulacrum, and the even more difficult problem that goes straight to the heart of the matter -- how to deal with a period and a style for which no models exist and standards are only evolving at a time when the modernist architecture of the 20th century is being rapidly and thoughtlessly demolished. Obviously, the Glass House could not follow the formula of a tastefully reinvented past. You can't reinvent Philip Johnson.
Marcel Breuer one of the fathers of modern architecture, built only one skyscraper, the 29-story Cleveland Trust Tower, which today stands abandoned on a forlorn block downtown.
But a plan to demolish the tower, and replace it with a midrise government office building, has caused an outcry among architectural preservationists, who call the building an overlooked landmark.
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