Word: center
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Professor Wassily Leontief, head of the Harvard Society of Fellows, approached Rothko with a proposal to donate his artwork for the society's new meeting place, the penthouse of the Holyoke Center, to be designed by noted architect Jose Luis Sert, who also designed the Science Center and Peabody Terrace. Rothko, enamored with dreams of creating a public space with his artwork, was eager to bring this vision to fruition. Ideally, Rothko preferred that the viewer stand a mere 18 inches away from the surface of his paintings, so that his glowing canvases governed even peripheral vision. And still, what...
...initial apprehension expressed by the Corporation about the Rothko commission. The walls of Harvard buildings, up to this point, had only been occupied by portrait after safe portrait of this or that Harvard luminary. At that time, the University was more a champion of contemporary architecture (Corbusier's Carpenter Center, Gropius's Graduate School dorm and Sert's eventual Holyoke Center) than a patron of modern visual...
...Center for Business and Government (CBG) will produce research, sponsor two fellowships and run executive conferences as benefits of its partnership with Keizai Doyukai (Doyukai), a Japanese business association, said J.H. Dow Davis, executive director...
...These are business executives from the Osaka region who will come here for one to two semesters and will work on research that fits into the center for business and government's mission," Davis said...
That is the height of Midshipmen senior center Sitapha Savane, who led the Patriot League in rebounding and field goal percentage one year ago, and has shown little sign of slowing down so far this season...