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...more upbeat phase, coining the word zip for his trademark stripes. As you approach Anna's Light (1968), a 6-m spread of pure scarlet bordered by white painted during this period, your vision blurs as you find nothing to focus on. The painting is so large and featureless that you can't tell if it's very near or far off. At his 1951 show, Newman tacked up a notice telling the public to stand up close to his big paintings. "There is a presence opposite yourself - in some cases 20 times as big as you are," Temkin explains...
...tree or maybe the mountain slopes he knew in his youth as a champion skier. Even he compares the building to a guillotine blade--not a bad image for a building that has cut through Manhattan's architectural doldrums. For four decades, developers have crammed the skyline with featureless boxes or high-rise gimmicks like Philip Johnson's Chippendale-top Sony headquarters. Now the city faces its most important urban-design decision in years: what to put where the World Trade Center was. Abraham's little rocket of a building suggests that not only is Austrian culture alive but that...
...next meeting, meanwhile, comes in early October, and here's some free advice, stipulated on the assumption that things look as flat and featureless in late September as they do in late August (not a big leap): Cut 50 more points, bringing the Fed funds target to an even 3 percent, and make the message very simple: We're done until further notice...
...black holes. By the time the universe is 1 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years old, the black holes themselves will disintegrate into stray particles, which will bind loosely to form individual "atoms" larger than the size of today's universe. Eventually, even these will decay, leaving a featureless, infinitely large void. And that will be that--unless, of course, whatever inconceivable event that launched the original Big Bang should recur, and the ultimate free lunch is served once more...
Even people who hate modern architecture--all those featureless skyscrapers bunched along heartless avenues!--can have a soft spot for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the most steadfast Modernist of them all. In his later years, he proposed variations of the same building for every purpose. For office towers and museums, a black steel-and-glass carton. For symphony halls and convention centers? Ditto. For houses? O.K., for houses, something more domestic--a steel-and-glass carton in white. All the same, the best of what he did is still utterly beautiful. Around the lobby of the Seagram Building...