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...AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM Husband-and-wife architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien were the perfect team for this vest-pocket New York City museum. Their famous feel for craft and material is something that folk artists understand. But their exercises in stone, glass and ingeniously textured metals are carried out within a modernist idiom that never looks quaint or "folkloric." Who knew you could work so many delightful configurations of space and surprising vistas--plus three staircases--into a relatively small building? It's a jewel-box museum that's a jewel in itself...
...RYAN ADAMS Gold (Lost Highway) There's an aroma of the young, freewheeling Bob Dylan in the organ and acoustic-guitar textures beloved by this urban folk rocker. On his lyric sheet, word games take a backseat to riffs on love, youth and empty pockets. Boomers nostalgic for their hitchhiking days, as well as their children thumbing a ride to the city for the first time, will find something to get weepy over...
...Little Teapot” to demonstrate the divergent musical styles of various campus groups. After these, she played the prelude to Bach’s First Cello Suite, and it was bee-yoo-tiful, and then she played one of those mournful Irish folk tunes that always shows up in the sad parts of movies...
...both a way for Chartey to carry on a Ghanaian tradition and to escape. “I love it,” Chartey says. “But I do lots of things. It’s an odd thing to be a celebrity for telling a folk tale...
...math department sponsors a seminar on number theory. For the naive student, unaware of which department offers a strong advising system or which one caters to the needs of its junior faculty, differentiating among the undergraduate giants like government or history and the often-forgotten departments like folk and myth or Classics can be daunting. And a student’s individual needs only complicate the matter; would a hands-off, self-directed environment be ideal or an intimately personal one with a handful of senior professors with whom to schmooze? Ultimately students will choose a department based on their...