Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seductive and streamlined, painted with a pastel palette of flamingo pinks, pale yellows and cool blues, the tropical art deco buildings of Miami Beach delight the eye and invite the viewer to contemplate a jazzier age, a futuristic past. For years, preservationists fought developers who thought it necessary to demolish the city's past in order to define its future. A step toward protecting those confectionary creations was taken on July 9, when the city commission created two historic districts encompassing the greatest concentration of art deco buildings along the south beach section, a once glitzy tourist mecca that...
...right angle, the circle, the sphere. In his thoughtful, gracefully written catalog for MOMA, Adjunct Curator Kirk Varnadoe says that Moser and Hoffmann were out "to recover richness from reduction." The result, briefly, was a deluxe austerity, furniture and objects stripped down and spare but still eager to delight. Only in Vienna: gemutlich modernism...
...illusion in Renaissance and baroque art; its best moment (which will be the envy of all red-blooded interior decorators) is a full-size wooden replica of Borromini's false-perspective colonnade, made in the 17th century for the Palazzo Spada in Rome. The second exhibition, "Wunderkammer," is a delight. Wunderkammern--literally, chambers of astonishment--were an embellishment of European collections from the 16th century onward. They were anthologies of real and artificial oddities, things astonishing by their exoticism or the intricacy of their making--or outright fakes, like a dead mermaid fashioned from dried fish and monkey skin. Their...
...link between such things and the surrealist delight in dream images is the theme of this show, which contrasts old curiosities with a range of modern work that runs from Joseph Cornell boxes to a weirdly beautiful reflection on nature and culture by the contemporary Italian sculptor Mario Merz, involving a motorbike with buffalo horns for handlebars, a zebra's head and a string of neon numbers...
...less enraptured audience in America. With the decline in the flow of information and reports out of South Africa, Americans will be deprived of the vivid pictures and descriptions of violence and protest which egg them on to protest. Congressional interest will dwindle without such public pressure--to the delight of the Pretoria government. As after the Sharpville and Soweto riots, South Africa is plotting to gain time out of the limelight to lick its wounds and quell internal and external dissent...