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From its first placard, the exhibition pulled no punches. There, within corridors that were his own creation, came blunt questions of the man's achievement and legacy:
"Genius? Fraud? Artist? Who is Frank Gehry?"
Such was the introduction to a recent retrospective on Mr. Gehry's long career in architecture and design. The exhibition was held inside the architect's first Ohio building - the sculpture-for-living that is the University of Toledo's Center for the Visual Arts.
Adjoined to the Toledo Museum of Art, the center opened 15 years ago next month as a home to the university's art department and the museum's reference library. Outside the 51,000-square-foot building is an agglomeration of boxy shapes and zig-zagging angles clad in gray lead-coated copper plates.
Mr. Gehry has described the building's skin as a jazz excursion, complete with visual riffs and syncopated rhythms that lift the eye up, then down, then back around. One critic called it "a collision of the Merrimack and the Monitor on the museum's grounds."
The University of Toledo’s Center for the Visual Arts adjoining the art museum has been called by one critic ‘a collision of the Merrimack and the Monitor on the museum’s grounds.’
It's just such design creativity that lifted Mr. Gehry to the pedestal of the world's most well-known living "starchitect." Yet that iconoclasm has often generated controversy for his projects in Toledo and elsewhere.
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Close Radio 111 audio works recorded for KPFK by visual and performance artists between 1976 and 1979. Includes rarities and never-before heard cuts from mostly LA / CalArts-based artists such as John Baldessari, The Kipper Kids, Martha Rosler, Jack Goldstein, Ant Farm, Hermann Nitsch, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley and many, many others. From the Evidence of Movement show at the Getty.
“Making art has never been a mystery to me,” Prince continues. “It’s never been something that’s very difficult.” The “umpires” of the art world could re-purpose that same statement as an indictment of Prince’s work. “I’m old enough to not worry about being judged,” Prince responds. “Most artists have made their decision about their work before it goes out of the studio. What am I going to say about something I did 30 years ago? There’s nothing to say.”
Gesner can be credited for a large part of the unique visual culture that comprises the Malibu landscape. His Wave House, built in 1957, inspired the Danish architect Jorn Utzon, who went on to design the Sydney Opera House. More recently, Getty Museum architect Richard Meier insisted the museum restore a Gesner house on property it had acquired years ago. "Meier said, 'Don't tear the house down. It's an example of his work, and a very good one.' I can't believe he did this, but he did," Gesner boasts. "They put about a million dollars into fixing it up so it could be a center for their trustees. I was amazed I had designed it, it looked so great."
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As one Philip Johnson house opens to the world, another may be headed for the trash heap.
The Historical Review Committee imposed a 90-day demolition delay on the Alice Ball house last Thursday, after dozens of letters in objection to the planned razing were submitted. The owner, architect Christina Ross, had filed for a demolition permit, following the Environmental Commission’s rejection of a proposed second house on the property. The earliest Ms. Ross may demolish the house is 90 days from the date of her application, November 1.
Under New Canaan’s demolition delay ordinance, a single objection to the razing of certain historical structures can halt demolition for 90 days. The ordinance’s intent is to allow more time to find a buyer willing to preserve an older structure, or at least salvage or document historical artifacts.
The Alice Ball House, designed by Mr. Johnson for a woman and built in 1953, was purchased by Ms. Ross for $1.5 million in 2005.
Ms. Ross had planned to convert the existing three-bedroom, three-bath home into a pool house with changing rooms and a play room; install a pool and build a six-bedroom house with a four-car garage at the rear of the property. Additions built on to the original 1,300 square-foot design would be removed, and plans call to extend the existing driveway to a proposed 7,200 square-foot home, following what was an old carriage road.
But due to wetlands on the property — the modern having been built on a filled wetland — the proposal required approval from the Environmental Commission. After five months of public hearings and deliberation, the commission unanimously denied the application in April, 2006.
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This is the long awaited Funky16Corners Radio Podcast Archive.
Here you will find titles, tracklists and download links for all the editions of the Funky16Corners Radio podcasts.
You will also find, with each podcast a link to the original post.
This page will be updated as each new podcast is added. I hope you dig it.
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From Andy Warhol to Lonelygirl15, modern media culture thrives on the traffic in counterfeit selves. In this world the greatest artist will also be, almost axiomatically, the biggest fraud. And looking back over the past 50 years or so, it is hard to find anyone with a greater ability to synthesize authenticity — to give his serial hoaxes and impersonations the ring of revealed and esoteric truth — than Bob Dylan.
It’s not just that Robert Zimmerman, a Jewish teenager growing up in Eisenhower-era Minnesota, borrowed a name from a Welsh poet and the singing style of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl troubadour and bluffed his way into the New York folk scene. That was chutzpah. What followed was genius — the elaboration of an enigmatic, mercurial personality that seemed entirely of its moment and at the same time connected to a lost agrarian past. From the start, Mr. Dylan has been singularly adept at channeling and recombining various strands of the American musical and literary vernacular, but he has often seemed less like an interpreter of those traditions than like their incarnation.
Neil Diamond held onto the secret for decades, but he has finally revealed that President Kennedy's daughter was the inspiration for his smash hit "Sweet Caroline."
"I've never discussed it with anybody before _ intentionally," the 66-year-old singer-songwriter told The Associated Press on Monday during a break from recording. "I thought maybe I would tell it to Caroline when I met her someday."
He got his chance last week when he performed the song via satellite at Caroline Kennedy's 50th birthday party.
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In one of the clearest signs yet of Hurricane Katrina’s lasting demographic impact, the City Council is about to have a white majority for the first time in over two decades, pointing up again the storm’s displacement of thousands of residents, mostly black.
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An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists.via vz
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Frank Sinatra and his ''Rat Pack'' -- Dean, Sammy, Joey, and Peter -- held court at its Carnival Supper Club. And there were the hundreds of thousands of tourists, who strolled through the Sheraton Bal Harbour hotel's majestic and mosaic lobby during its half-century existence. Sunday morning, with a staccato series of booms, it all became part of the past. The hotel, which opened to the public in 1956 as the Americana, came tumbling down.via vz
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The first pair of customers came 26 minutes early, and their arrival Monday morning drew smiles of relief from the staff at Encounter, the iconic LAX restaurant that had been closed for repairs for eight months.
"Before we could open up our doors, we were getting customers," said operations manager Kenneth Merritt. "It's good to be back in business."
That was the sentiment of Steven O'Bryant of Azusa and his 16-year-old son Kyle, the first two in the door. O'Bryant had planned to drive to San Diego for the day, but when he heard an early morning radio report that the intergalactic-styled restaurant would reopen for lunch at 11 a.m., he and Kyle headed for Los Angeles International Airport. O'Bryant, 47, had last eaten there when he was 10.
"I didn't recognize it until I came in here," he said, pointing out the blobby, multicolored decor that might have been inspired by a lava lamp. "These might even be the same tables."
Encounter is housed in the Theme Building, which was completed in 1961 and designated a historic-cultural monument by the Los Angeles City Council and the Cultural Heritage Commission in 1992. The restaurant is operated by Delaware North Cos. Travel Hospitality Services. The observation deck has been closed since 9/11 for security reasons, but is expected to reopen once the exterior renovation is complete, said Nancy Castles, a spokeswoman for the airport agency.
Featured in many movies and tourist snapshots, the kitschy landmark was closed in March after a 1,000-pound piece of stucco fell from one of its spider-like arches. No one was injured, but inspectors assessed the damage, and officials decided it was safer to close the building while crews retrofitted the structure.