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People from all over the world flocked to Boston for the event. Werner Jurkowski of Berlin, Germany, will be leaving Boston on the Kruzenshtern...
...Perhaps more surprising is the dearth of jazz and show tunes (no Cole Porter, Gershwin, Irving Berlin or Richard Rodgers) and the categorical dismissal of country music. Instead, "People Get Ready" and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" round out the list - worthy songs, doubtless, but perhaps more representative of limited common ground in a poll of 20 participants than of true greatness. Then again, as the man suggested, satisfaction is hard to come...
...glass Parthenon, like Mies van der Rohe's National Gallery in Berlin, or an elaborately "timeless" spatial event, like Louis Kahn's Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. It is not an operatic signature building, like Frank Gehry's titanium-sheathed meganautilus in Bilbao, Spain. Still less is it a feat of conspicuously externalized luxury, like Richard Meier's Getty Center, poised in marble aloofness above Los Angeles...
...also, to no small degree, schizophrenic: beyond comparison, the greatest historical collection of British art that ever has been or will be assembled, but encased in a jacket of international-modernist works, the two pushing and puffing for wall space in a great city that, unlike New York, Paris, Berlin or almost any other major Western city, still had no "dedicated" museum of modern art. This was a huge Gordian knot in British culture, and Serota--a low-key man of striking tenacity, intelligence and charm--put Alexander's sword...
...then there's his new DG Bank headquarters, nearing completion in Berlin, which contains between the unexpectedly plain walls of its central courtyard a freestanding auditorium in the rough shape of a giant horse's head. "That's the most mystical thing I've ever done," says Gehry. "The best shape I've ever made." He designed it on a computer screen, which is rare for him. Though computers are essential to plot the specs for his complicated forms, in the design phase Gehry works like a sculptor, drawing and building three-dimensional models, one after another after another...