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...should not be completely convinced by the façade of utter refinement—indeed, those who came seeking a night of class were also there seeking, well, a bit of something else. It is the perfect place for middle-aged men to feign a fascination with Renaissance art in endeavors of female flattery. “I painted that,” one man whispered in my ear as I observed a work by Diego Velasquez. While one regular patron of the event raved about all of the gorgeous men she had encountered there, two female first-time...
...front façade will be fully restored while the southern side has been torn down and will be fully redesigned and rebuilt in Georgian style...
...exhibition of outfits and sketches currently on tour in Berlin, as "a shortsighted exchange of cash for dignity." In Venice, Krens has another role, one about which he is ambivalent: caretaker of the Biennale's U.S. pavilion. The Guggenheim Foundation owns the building - all prissy porticoes, pedimented façade and pretty windows - but, for all of Krens' clout, he has no say in what is displayed inside. That is the prerogative of the Federal Advisory Committee on International Exhibitions, which reports to the State Department. "It's not so much that we're being taken advantage of," says Krens...
Despite Summers’ assessment of the University’s sterling record in the 1950s, closer scrutiny of Harvard’s response to McCarthyism reveals a public façade not entirely consistent with reality...
...allied bombs that hit Vienna's Albertina Palace in March 1945 destroyed nine magnificent neoclassical staterooms and reduced stretches of richly decorated façade to rubble. The museum's priceless art collection - including masterpieces by Michelangelo and Rembrandt - had been moved by the Nazis to safe storage in salt mines near Salzburg, and survived unharmed. But the former Habsburg residence became a long-term casualty of war. Postwar refurbishment, from 1948-52, was a cash-strapped compromise of gray concrete exteriors; the grand entrance was replaced by a door at the side of the building. Visitors hoping to catch...