Word: berliner
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James B. Cuno, who left Harvard last December to assume directorship of the Courtald Institute in London, spoke to an audience of about 150 in the Sackler Lecture Hall about challenges facing art museums in Munich, Berlin, and London...
...parents, Holocaust survivors, arriving on a ship that glided past the Statue of Liberty. For much of his architectural career, he was a teacher and theorist, not a builder. Then in the late 1980s, while living in Europe, he won a competition to design the Jewish Museum of Berlin. His complex building, a zinc-clad thunderbolt, operates in a way similar to that of Trade Center design. Its very lines acknowledge a calamity--in this case the Holocaust--while offering pathways for a story of survival and continuity. It instantly made him a worldwide design star, with commissions in Europe...
...Berlin also gave Libeskind combat experience in guiding a controversial design to completion. Now he and his wife Nina are moving back to New York City, looking for a new home "right next to the site." Architects like to keep a close eye on things. By the time of his death in 1926, Antonio Gaudi was living full time on the construction site of his masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. For the record, it's still unfinished. --Reported by Simon Crittle/New York
...DIED. HORST BUCHHOLZ, 69, who acted in the classic western The Magnificent Seven and recent Oscar winner Life is Beautiful; in Berlin. After a stint in Berlin theater, Buchholz had a successful movie career in the 1950s mostly playing rebellious teenagers, which gave him a reputation as Germany's James Dean. He was the first German actor to receive international acceptance after World...
...critical to survival as artistic merit. "Culture is business," says Werner Heinrichs, dean at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. "Nobody should pretend that these two things are not linked." That lesson is being learned at the Staatsoper on Unter den Linden in Berlin. The city of Berlin faces debts of more than €45 billion, so the opera house and other premier cultural venues are feeling the pinch. Like all German arts organizations, the Staatsoper relies heavily on state funds. This year, it will receive about €44 million in subsidies out of a total...