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...currently comprise the department, collecting, preserving, and presenting materials and research relevant to the conservation of modern art. Unfortunately, until the HUAM move, access to Newman’s materials and tools will be limited. Mancusi-Ungaro has long had ties to Newman and the studio collection as co-author of “Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné,” a comprehensive catalogue of Newman’s work published by the Foundation. Francesca Bewer, a HUAM conservator, points to the donation of John Singer Sargent’s materials and tools in the 1920s...
...large impact on theater in particular, but also American culture in general.” Larson originally staged “Tick, Tick…BOOM!” as a “rock monologue.” After his early death, his family commissioned David Auburn, the author of “Proof,” to re-arrange the script for a three-person cast. Because the show was based on Larson’s monologue, there are very few stage directions or instructions for other aspects of the production, like lighting or set design...
...maintains such a consistently fluid and engaging writing style that even the weaker essays are still enjoyable to read.In any book that blends art and science, there is always a danger that the discussion will fall into the could-a-monkey-and-a-typewriter-reproduce-Shakespeare trap, that the author will try to quantify artistic expression into a set of scientific facts and data. But Sacks is not interested in reducing musical creativity to the firing of neurons or the flowing of hormones. He has a deep sense of respect for the unique possibilities of artistic expression and claims, quoting...
...agenda. They present the different themes the photographs analyze and critique: the disappearance of the vernacular, the spreading of homogeneous suburbs and corporations, and, finally, the decaying inner cities left behind. Empty shop windows, Levittowns, and boarded-up apartment buildings tell the story. According to William L. Fox, the author of the first essay appearing in the afterword, the inner city is ruinous and local businesses are disappearing as a direct consequence of the spread of suburbia. As the tax base rushes to new localities in the hope of peace and quiet, they leave no incentive for investment...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down