Word: exteriorizer
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Jungle Identity. Not that the exhibition within-"Art of the United States: 1670-1966"-was overlooked. It hardly could be, for rarely, if ever, has a better survey of American art been assembled under one roof. But what won over the first nighters was Breuer's dramatic exterior combined with spacious, almost handcrafted interiors, including white canvas and plywood walls, split bluestone floors, and precast concrete grid ceilings, that seemed to recede impassively behind the art works on display...
Most of the changes involve the use of less costly building materials, such as the handrailings or the exterior walls of the underpass. Another proposed change would alter the lighting system. According to L. Gard Wiggins, Administrative Vice-President, the planned lighting would be far more intense than lighting in any comparable underpass in the metropolitan area. Harvard is requesting a reduction to the standard brightness, he said...
...Giulio Gatti-Casazza heads straight for Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. As the newly appointed general manager of the Met, he is eager to have a look at his new home. Mama mia! What he sees is enough to curl his beard. It's bad enough that the exterior looks like a brewery. But the backstage area is so cramped that it can hardly accommodate a P.T.A. pageant. Principal singers, he finds to his horror, have to rehearse in the ladies' powder room; scenery is stacked behind the building on Seventh Avenue. Just be patient, the board...
Unimpressed by avant-garde obscurity, Kerr is wary of many of the modern plays his colleagues are so quick to champion. Beneath the plays' tough-minded exterior and the four-letter words he detects a sentimentality that seems to say the world is all wrong while the author is all right. While other critics gushed over the "lofty literacy" and "awesome depths" of Edward Albee's Tiny Alice two seasons ago, Kerr stuck to his standards. He found the play arch and pretentious: "The language becomes picky, tricky; at once rigid and self-indulgent, as though everything were...
...works by Goya, Velásquez and El Greco, post-Picasso Spanish painters of promise. An abstractionist named Gustavo Torner, now co-director of the museum, persuaded him to try Cuenca, where a grateful mayor was happy to find someone ready to rent the hanging houses already undergoing exterior repairs...