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Over time the Bauhaus faculty would include some enduring names in 20th century art and design, including Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. They were all in their different ways ardent modernists, but in its first years the school was caught in a contradiction: a romance with individual craftsmanship at odds with the modernist ideal of mass production. Even the name Bauhaus (House for Building) carried echoes of Bauhtten, the shared lodgings of the medieval craftsmen who built the great cathedrals. As for the painters connected to the Bauhaus, whatever systems and principles Klee and Kandinsky...
...Andersson and Ulvaeus' ABBA songbook, has been the major theatrical hit of the past decade and an international blockbuster of a movie. But those tunes are old; ABBA burst on the scene in 1974 by winning the Eurovision competition with Waterloo, and the quartet - Andersson, Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad - lasted eight more years, breaking up in 1982. Then what? The lads did what songwriters like Irving Berlin and the Gershwins used to do after proving themselves on the pop charts: they wrote a Broadway-style musical. (Check out TIME's review of the big-screen Mamma...
...only Le Corbusier building on the entire North American continent—Harvard’s own Carpenter Center. His “Le Corbusier: A Life” is the first-ever in-depth biography of the Swiss architect. As the Executive Director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, Conn. and author of an acclaimed biography on Balthus, he is deeply interested in exploring the lives of the artists who create the masterpieces he loves. The Harvard Crimson: First of all, why Le Corbusier? What about his life or his art compelled you to write about...
...have been writing for the Top 40, but their songs explored a gamut of dramatic situations, from the vagaries of celebrity (Super Trouper, Does Your Mother Know) to the wistfulness a woman feels as her daughter grows up (Slipping Through My Fingers). And since Abba's vocalists were women (Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskog), the guys composed enough hits over the group's nine-year run to accommodate all the female characters in Mamma...
...Winnipeg native dispelled any concerns after her bravissima showing against longtime rival Anni Friesinger of Germany in the 1,500 m. "I just got really wired, had a coffee, felt really on fire--completely different than before the 3K," Klassen said. At the Lingotto Oval, compatriot Kristina Groves, who would take a silver, set the time to beat before Klassen and Friesinger hit the ice, thrillingly paired side by side. When it was over, Klassen had skated so smoothly and powerfully to capture gold that a stunned Friesinger glided over to her rival and gave...