Word: cubes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light. No architect in America, not even Kahn himself, has reflected more sensitively on space and natural light in their relation to works of art. Isozaki's use of materials, especially the white, curved, fused- glass paneling and the rugose red skin of Indian sandstone with which the declarative cube-and-arch geometries of the entrance block are sheathed, is wonderfully precise and just offbeat enough to keep the eye alert...
...copy of the magazine you are now holding in your hands is destined for a time capsule, a green-tinted 18-inch steel cube, to be deposited in the museum of the Statue of Liberty. In addition to this week's TIME, which contains memorable photographs of 1986 and a letter to the people of 2086 by Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt, the capsule will include high-quality original prints of the pictures in this week's Images section, as well as next week's Man of the Year issue. When the container is opened, the contents should help explain much...
...terraces clad in squares of soft, tan-gray Burgundian limestone. The avenue is for monumental sculpture (some very monumental indeed, like the huge stone original of Carpeaux's La Danse, a copy of which decorates the facade of the Paris Opera). It finishes in a pair of windowless double-cube towers, containing smaller galleries, set against the glass end wall. Inside the terraces, left and right, are enclosed galleries. On top of these are two smaller "streets" for sculpture, and off those, on the upper level, more galleries for painting and decorative arts. This axiality was compared, by critics...
Strings first popped up unexpectedly in the mathematical models of particle physicists. Right after the big bang, the mathematics suggests, the rapidly cooling cosmos underwent a phase transition, roughly analogous to the sharp change that occurs when water turns into ice. And just as an ice cube is marred by cracks and lines left over from uneven freezing, the universe too might have developed flaws -- in the form of strings. These strings would try to straighten and contract, often whipping about and getting tangled in the process. When a string crossed itself, the resulting loop would pinch off from...
...first 10 minutes, Freinkel's mainstage production leans toward innovation. The stage is divided: one side contains stylized broken marble pillars; while the other, raked half features a big brass bed, boulders, and a door on a checkerboard cube seemingly embedded in the Loeb floor. Presumably, the split is intended to illustrate the difference between Macbeth's public behavior in front of the pillars and his secret thoughts in his twisted bedroom. Both sides taken together, the stage looks like something Dali might have sketched on the back of a napkin...