Word: expositioneers
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The trip from the new Spain to the old is but a five-minute stroll across a gleaming white bridge that spans the Guadalquivir River in Seville. On one / side, near the monastery where Christopher Columbus was once buried, rise the extravagant pavilions of the Universal Exposition. There, 250 fountains...
Gore has produced a labor of statesmanship, evangelism and scientific exposition. He does not so much break new ground as organize a wide variety of material and experience to state the case of environmental urgency and the need for change, for what he calls a "Global Marshall Plan." He has...
FOR ALL THEIR POLYVINYL sheen and electronic gadgetry and spiffy biomorphic shapes, world's fairs are 19th century spectacles. They are celebrations of human (or, anyhow, bourgeois capitalist) confidence, of mechanical ingenuity, of rationality, of progress. The first was staged in London's Crystal Palace in 1851, just as the...
Although the Norwegian pavilion was not cheap (about $15 million), its very temporariness gave license to the designers to make it strange and wonderful, the perfect folly. But something is odd about the pavilions at this exposition: unlike the unmistakably fake, giddily impermanent stage-set structures of previous world's...
There's no hint of the Grand Allee or L'Exposition d'Agriculture inside the walls of Old Quebec. Within the walls, scarcely a cobblestone lies out of place. Those that do were probably knocked out by somebody's Toyota.