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Koethe, who received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard in 1973, will receive his prize, worth $15,000, in April. He is the recipient of numerous other awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts award...
...Kaufman Shelemay, chair of the top-ranked music department, bewails the fact that Radano will be leaving after this semester to resume teaching at the University of Wisconsin and, funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship, to write a book: Lying up a Nation: Black Music and American Racial Encounter, which will develop the lectures Radano gave here at Harvard...
...GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, BILBAO The first great building of the 21st century has turned up a few years early. In the unspectacular Spanish Basque city of Bilbao, architect Frank Gehry has deposited a branch of New York City's Guggenheim Museum of Art that is a tribute to the power of that great contemporary idea, "Stop making sense." Beneath the cocked hats of its undulating towers, the most delightful architectural mind of our time has been everywhere at work. Without stooping to the twee historical quotation of so much postmodern design, Gehry has repudiated Modernist sanctity, symmetry and right-angled geometries...
BORN. To ELISABETH SHUE, 34, fetching Oscar-nominated actress, and her husband DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, TV director; a son, Miles William; in Los Angeles...
...Tribune. "A building that should be put in a museum to show how mad the 20th Century is," editorialized the New York Daily Mirror... Thus in a babel of discord, and six months after his death, Frank Lloyd Wright's last major work, the $3,000,000 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum...opened to the public last week... What first visitors saw, as they walked through the newly opened doors, was a huge, sudden space that swirled breathtakingly to the high dome. This, they recognized, was a building whose closed outer face deliberately belied the soaring drama of its interior...