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...inside out. What would ordinarily have been the inner workings of the museum - escalators, ventilation ducts, even its steel structural framework - were put on the outside, making it easier to produce large, uninterrupted gallery spaces within. Rogers (and Piano) took the Modernist rule that a building should clearly express its structure and extended it into realms where Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier never ventured...
...outcome, however, was the same. You can't call dibs on an idea. "Everybody is allowed to have ideas, so there's no legal protection for them," says legal commentator Ian Caplin. "But once you express an idea, the law says that copyright can protect that expression." But in this case, both courts agreed that the theories Baigent and Leigh are trying so hard to protect are ideas, not expression. So Brown - and anyone else - is free to use them. Upholding last year's ruling, the appeals court said that the law can't be used to "monopolize historical research...
...restive youth are demanding representation and rights that older, less politicized generations never expected. Jacques Habib Sy, a Dakar-based political analyst, says, "The level of political consciousness among young people is growing. You have a new citizenry who know it's important to go to the poll and express themselves with their ballot cards...
...Party by Judy Chicago, goes on permanent display in a specially constructed gallery within the new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Say what you will about it, that it's middlebrow, elementary and literal-minded (which it is), but as a vessel to express a collective longing to rescue great women from oblivion, The Dinner Party has held its ground. In the absence for now of any better contenders, it's the Liberty Bell of women's history...
...Overall, one of the most striking qualities of the performance was the Yings’ ability to express themselves through their music alone. They relied almost exclusively on a deceptively delicate touch in playing their instruments to relay the full effect of the pieces, and minimized the vigorous head-shaking and body-swaying that too often overshadows the actual music in other performances. Each member of the quartet, as well as Fan, displayed an acute awareness of each other, and struck a balance between cohesion and self-expression...