Word: centering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year Brother Attilio worked on the design, first in clay, then in plaster, for the world's biggest sculptural glass panel, to go over the door of the Italian Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. The panel, 10 ft. by 16 ft., took seven tons of clay, showed one huge figure shoveling. The Piccirillis are not glass workers. The model went to the Corning Glass Works for casting. Corning divided the panel into 45 sections to be joined by transparent cement, used a so-called "poetic" Pyrex glass filled with air bubbles. Last week Corning had finished...
...Rockefeller's Center has had great ructions with such modernist artists as Diego Rivera (TIME, May 22, 1933 et seq.). The classical Piccirillis are precisely after the Rockefeller heart...
...mural full of anti-capitalist symbolism, though they themselves number some of the richest men in North America. Last year they had Diego Rivera repaint in Mexico City's pink-domed National Theatre the magnificent fresco mural the Rockefellers had ordered out of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (TIME, May 22, 1933, et seq.). Last week the world's biggest mural project was being smeared across the walls and ceilings of Mexico City's vasty Abelardo Rodriguez Market by nine youthful painters, the eldest little more than 30. Five of them had never done a mural before...
DECEMBER 18 --Hemenway Gymnasium may become the new social center for commuters...
MARCH 26 --Commuters get first floor of Dudley Hall as center...