Word: deco
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...field of design. "Paris/New York," a dense, imaginative exhibit running at the Museum of the City of New York until Feb. 22, focuses on 1925-40 - the bright, anodized moment when Paris and New York were forging new ways of looking good. That was when Paris invented Art Deco (and New York improved on it), New York was alive with a new sound called jazz (and Paris went crazy over it) and Paris dominated haute couture (while New York industrialized it). "Let's work together," enjoined the French architect Le Corbusier. "Let's build a bridge across the Atlantic." Leading...
...Aside from a few paintings by the transatlantic practitioners of Neo-Romanticism, a gentler version of Surrealism, this is a show about stuff. One of the first things you see is a 6-ft.-long (2 m) wooden model of the Normandie, that floating showcase for Art Deco and French luxury that was once the classiest way to go between the two cities. Nearby are modernistic silver serving pieces and other shipboard relics. A striking 1934 photomontage advertising the Normandie shows it sailing through Times Square past the Art Deco Paramount Building. Art Deco - that decorative fusion of Art Nouveau...
...Various 1920s and '30s New York high-rises are represented in photos, ironwork and hunks of decoration - especially Rockefeller Center, the 22-acre (nine hectare) living museum of Art Deco that lies 52 blocks due south of the exhibit. The French government, not coincidentally, was one of the center's first tenants. Indeed, France fell in love with the skyscraper, and the show includes plans for (mercifully unbuilt) Parisian versions that somehow lacked the energy of their New York counterparts...
...architecture is frozen music, as Goethe aphorized, then jazz is Art Deco on ice. France adored that American musical invention and especially Josephine Baker, the black American singer and dancer who electrified the Paris jazz scene in the 1920s. Her sleek, exotic beauty is on display in Art Deco - influenced posters, paintings, advertisements and fabrics, plus a film loop of her doing an athletic shimmy...
...more effete crowd, Miami is holding its 32nd annual Art Deco Weekend festival, and this year's theme is Argentina. Tango dancers will demonstrate their skills on stage on Ocean Drive, and there will be Argentine-wine tastings and screenings of films from the country. The Jan. 16-18 celebration kicks off with the Art Deco parade, complete with stilt walkers, giant puppets and unicyclists. Ocean Drive, between Fifth Street and 15th Street...