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...spite of such skepticism, minimalism has grown rapidly in popularity. Last fall, Glass's visionary opera Satyagraha sold out five performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music after being performed successfully at Artpark in upstate New York and in Europe. At the Royal Palace in Amsterdam last May, Glass's newest music-theater piece, The Photographer, was premiered at a command performance for Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands. And in Chicago this summer, 10,000 listeners at Grant Park lustily cheered a performance of Adams' powerful 1981 choral piece, Harmonium. "When I was a student," says Adams...
Isaac F. Silvera, an American experimental physicist at the University of Amsterdam, Holland, will join Harvard's Physics Department next fall, bringing to an end a search that has lasted interminently for more than five years...
Silvera did both his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a student of Tinkham's. Before he went to Amsterdam, he worked on basic research at a laboratory operated by the aerospace corporation Rockwell International...
Ruisdael's work bears traces of many older attitudes. The impossible God's-eye view of a remote earth from above, as done by 16th century artists from Altdorfer to Leonardo, was echoed by Ruisdael in a small panorama of Amsterdam seen from the scaffolding of the unfinished New Town Hall. He also made his homages to the landscape of symbols. The most spectacular paysage moralisé in his work was the motif for two versions of The Jewish Cemetery, circa 1655. This gloomy landscape pullulates with symbols: the broken tree over the dark brook, suggesting a bridge...
...paintings and drawings of Ruisdael at the Fogg help us place him into perspective among Dutch masters of the 17th century, but the repercussions of his genius go far beyond Haarlem. Amsterdam or Egmond of the 1660s or '70s. The Ruisdeal exhibition proves that the Fogg continues to champion the first-two-definitions of "mu-se-um," and--especially with plans for the addition alive again--the third: "something that resembles a museum...