Word: estheticizing
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IBM's Manhattan headquarters were inconvenient for the two-thirds of its employees who already lived in New York's northern suburbs, and seven of its eleven divisions were already located in suburban Westchester. But such practical arguments seem minor compared with the sheer esthetic appeal of the...
Not Near Enough. In the last 15 years, some 25 public and private projects have been launched in Harlem at a cost of $370 million, providing space for 84,000 people. Some are in the planning stage, such as a $30 million development for 7,440 people on the site...
Housed in the Graustarkian palace ruins of the pomp-crazed nobles of Hesse, Dokumenta III features 1,500 intelligently selected paintings, sculptures and drawings from 250 artists who are either the acknowledged masters or the exploratory frontiersmen of modern art. The shaping hand behind it and the earlier Dokumentas belongs...
The real show was almost as predictable. With 3,000 paintings, 500 artists and 34 countries represented, the Biennale promised, as usual, to be an embarrassment of riches, and proved, as it often has, to be a mass preview of oblivion. Endless arid abstractions vied with the fossil art of...
What first fired his imagination was the famed Armory Show of 1913. Then and there, he decided to be a modern painter. But to train his hand to follow his esthetic vision required enormous feats of selfdiscipline. Davis told how in 1927 he "nailed a rubber glove, an electric fan...