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What's On in St. Louis. The Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, Mo., has a retrospective of mid-century modernist architect Eero Saarinen, who designed the iconic TWA terminal at JFK airport and, of course, St. Louis's Gateway Arch. "Shaping the Future" takes a look at the Finnish architect's work through full-scale mock-ups and a selection of drawings, models, photographs and films, through April 27. Washington University, Skinker and Forsyth Blvds., St. Louis...
...development of this highly influential organization; they serve as a sort of manifesto, revealing the deliberation required for artistic innovation in this environment.The collection of letters presented in “Correspondence” does an excellent job of shedding light upon the less glamorous aspects of being an architect of culture. When one things of the avant-garde, there is an image of the creative, carefree bohemian that naturally comes to mind. But as McKenzie Wark points out in the introduction to the letters, Guy Debord was as much a secretary as a theorist or an artist...
...story Television Cultural Center, which was supposed to house the spiffy Beijing Mandarin Oriental, was designed by renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, who intended to match the aesthetics of the adjacent China Central Television headquarters. Amidst the Olympics mania in 2004, the Chinese government hired Koolhaas’s firm to design a new headquarters for CCTV. The massive six-million-square-foot complex that resulted, which includes the Television Cultural Center, came to be known as “Zhichuang,” or “knowledge window.” With two leaning towers connected...
...Pope.L is best known for his interventionist public art, including the 2005 installation-on-wheels project, “The Black Factory.” Recently commissioned by the Carpenter Center of Visual Arts to create an installation that incorporates the building, the only North American structure designed by architect Le Corbusier, Pope.L has created a performance piece and exhibition in the Carpenter Center. The Crimson sat down with Pope.L to discuss his thoughts on masculinity, the role of arts in a liberal arts education, and “Corbu Pops,” his upcoming Carpenter Center installation.The Harvard...
...Kennedy Center, six years ago it announced plans to completely reinvent its setting. The $650 million redesign, by the prominent architect Rafael Viñoly, envisioned a four-square-block fountain plaza built over that tangle of roadways, two sizable low-rise buildings that would face the center from across the new plaza, and a long boulevard of reflecting pools. The idea was to make the place more like part of an ensemble of pavilions, less like the lonely white palazzo that it remains - and will remain for some time. Two years after the expansion plan was unveiled...