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...ends of Maltzan’s design—a small theater on one end and a gallery at the other—are visually untethered and threaten to take flight like a bird. While the form is striking, the actual spaces seem less than ideal. Reminiscent of Dutch architect-celebrity Rem Koolhaas’ Second Stage Theatre in Manhattan, the stage’s proscenium is replaced by a giant window that overlooks the street below and doubles as a film screen. Similarly, it becomes clear that Maltzan’s museums are not places that are ideally suited...
...happens that I am a smoker. It also happens that, each year at this time, I'm on vacation on the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten / Saint Martin, which, being a joint satrapy of the Dutch and French governments, has no smoking restrictions - you can light up at work, on the beach, in the restaurants and casinos - and where a carton of cigarettes, from Europe or the U.S., costs $11. So I am 1200 miles and one time zone removed from this noble experiment in summoning the will to tell other people to stop doing something they enjoy...
...It’s a bit of a conundrum for friends,” Dean Hunt, Schoenhof’s Foreign Books employee and long-time language maestro, admits with a chuckle. Because, despite the fact that Hunt knows French, German, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Ukranian, Finnish and a smattering of Slavic languages, he hasn’t ventured off this continent in 18 years. “I hate flying,” he says, at home with the store’s obscure volumes and multilingual clientele. Hunt leans back decisively...
...long, esteemed career, she added “pimp for dead rappers” to her resume, and the general population neglected to take note. Unwittingly, Elliott makes an unambiguous case for her guilt in her newest single and accompanying video, “Pass That Dutch,” offering evidence of the shamelessness with which she regularly exploits her fallen peers...
...latest project is to help clean David himself, in time for his 500th birthday in 2004. The distilled-water cleaning, during which David will remain visible to the public, is being financed by a Dutch nonprofit foundation. The Friends sponsored the diagnostic testing that will determine how the restoration proceeds, and they're funding a DVD and website containing all the latest research on the statue. Was it hard to get the money? "The $200,000 for David were gathered literally in 24 hours," says Brandolini. Information: www.friendsofflorence.org