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...broad boulevard planted with linden trees that runs east to Alexanderplatz. As in the old days, Unter den Linden is once again lined with cafés. Down the street near Friedrichstrasse is the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, one of the city's newest museums and a showplace for the avant garde. (Tel. 20 20 93 0; Open daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.) Friedrichstrasse is a window shopper's paradise, with stores clustered around a three-building complex called the Fried-richstadt Passagen. At one end is the striking Galeries Lafayette, with an immense glass cone through its heart...
...trip to Bilbao, Spain, two years ago, Lotti was struck by the wildly spiraling metallic towers of the Guggenheim Museum. "It looked so different from everything around it," he recalls. "I wanted to do the same thing with a shoe." Eighteen months later, Nike unveiled the Air Max Specter, a slip-on sneaker with an upper sole of grooved, sinuous curves, available in the same titanium gray as the museum's exterior. The shoe became the season's No. 1 seller...
Surprisingly, it was Clancy’s passion for theater, not music, that spurred him to cross the pond to America, where the band was eventually formed. On the way, Clancy’s misadventures include being wooed by a Guggenheim heiress and keeping house with a psychic Radcliffe dropout in New York City. The book is almost too dense with such vignettes, but the sharp wit and storytelling ability of the “troubador” rescue it from the shallowness that comes with broad coverage. It may not be Angela’s Ashes, but, like...
...Latin Quarter. Groups of friends evolved into artistic movements, each with an "-ism" of its own. Even World War I couldn't cramp the city's style. "Paris, Capital of the Arts 1900-1968," which opened last month at London's Royal Academy of Arts (it moves to the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, from May 21), charts the city's artistic history. "The R.A. has had a tradition over the last 20 years of doing major surveys of art in the 20th century in various countries, and it had never done France," says co-curator Anne Dumas. "We felt that French...
Walt replaces Stanton Professor of the First Amendment Frederick Schauer, who was recently named a Guggenheim Fellow and plans to pursue research on decision making...