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So, Frank Lloyd Wright And Marcel Duchamp Walk Into A Meeting...
No, it isn't the beginning to a joke, this really happened! Much thanks to The New Modernist, Edward Lifson, who provided some photos and a link to a 7.5 hour recording of a meeting called "The Western Round Table on Modern Art" which took place in San Francisco in April, 1949. As Lifson points out on his blog:
The artists and critics opine on art in a changing culture, degeneracy, science, communication, the public, the critic, and other topics, including my favorite - the beautiful.
Check out the post on Edward's site and follow the link to download the entire recording to hear it for yourself. Beautiful!
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A 50-year-old pre-fab house designed by Jean Prouvé for French colonials in Africa is currently residing in the front garden of Tate Modern. The building, a sheet steel prototype, is one of only three built between 1949 and 1951. It was recovered from the Tropics, dismantled, restored to near mint condition and bought by American hotelier Andre Balazs. Shipped into London last month, it is about to be officially unveiled. Watch the video here to see it being built.
London-based architects Hawkins\Brown have added two new structures to a cluster of farm buildings at Wysing Arts Centre in Bourn, Cambridgeshire. The courtyard now includes an artists’ studio block and reception area alongside an existing converted storage barn and former cow sheds.
The main studio block at the front of the site provides nine studios over two floors. The alternating rhythm of the full-height glazing and timber louvres on the front elevation replicates the timber structure of the adjacent building, a 17-century farmhouse.
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After 100 years the painting of the Forth Rail bridge is to come to an end, depriving the English language of one its most treasured similes. With three coats of a special paint, similar to that used in the offshore oil industry, painting of the bridge is due to be completed in four years. The paint has an estimated life-span of 25 years, although it is hoped it will last closer to 40 years.
But what Network Rail, the owners of the Forth Bridge, stands to gain in productivity, the English language could lose a cherished aphorism.
According to the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms, if "repairing or improving something is like painting the Forth Bridge, it takes such a long time that by the time you have finished doing it, you have to start again".