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...West and skiers descending in formation down the dwindling glaciers of the Rockies; we had crowds of people in blue thronging lower Manhattan to form a “sea of people” to show where the new tideline would someday fall; we even had a crane winching a yacht twenty feet into the air above Jacksonville Florida to show the new sea level if Greenland slides into the ocean...
...museum's sculpture garden, those works will be the crescendo of the Serra retrospective, organized by curators Kynaston McShine and Lynne Cooke, that opens at MOMA on June 3. But first it was necessary to get them indoors, which required two trailer trucks, a vast sliding wall, a crane, a 40-ft.-wide rolling gantry and a team of welders...
...Guitar Nation,” follows the determined 2002 search for the first U.S. air guitar champion. While vying for this title, national contenders David “C-Diddy” Jung and Dan “Björn Türoque” Crane pioneer a new American pastime, creating a cult following for their sport in the process. That night, I was invited by none other than the film’s director, Alexandra Lipsitz, to join the cast and crew for an “All-Star Air-Off.” Rocking steady with...
...undergraduate members of the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers. Their visit is the result of a long saga centered on the acquisition of the bells now in Lowell. The 18 bells in the tower originally hung in the Danilov Monastery, but were purchased by philanthropist Charles R. Crane and given to Harvard in 1930 to save them from the possibility of destruction under Stalinist rule. The bells are scheduled to return home to the Danilov Monastery during the summer of 2008, in exchange for replicas of the bells, which will be completed and inspected in the coming weeks...
...shelves for months. The mood this summer is decidedly sharper, and designers are taking their inspiration from origami. At the Christian Dior haute couture show, models posed in intricately tucked, bowed and creased ensembles, while Italian design company Pallucco's complex Glow lamp could easily double for a paper crane. For a more loosely based interpretation, turn to MOMA Design Store's curvy leather caterpillar or Ligne Roset's angular Facett chair. Even Lalique has come into the fold with Vibration, a collection of crystal pieces inspired by the ancient Japanese art form...