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...Best-known of the photos is a series of some 20,000 Frank took around the U.S. on a Guggenheim grant. This view of the 1950s through the eyes of a Jewish immigrant punched many black-and-white holes in the American Dream. One example in the exhibition is some boys outside a Mississippi school in 1955. Frank provides their words on seeing him take their picture: "He must be a communist - he looks like one. Why don't you go to the other side of town and watch the niggers play...
...their own directly operated stores has changed the face of the shopping landscape. Some of the world's greatest architects are now designing stores. Rem Koolhaas, who won architecture's Nobel Prize equivalent last year, the Pritzker, is conceptualizing the New York Prada store, which sits beneath the Soho Guggenheim Museum. Christian de Portzamparc, who won the Pritzker in 1994, designed the LVMH tower on New York's 57th Street. So when Gucci took over Yves Saint Laurent, creative director Tom Ford knew that the first task was to bring the brand's stores up to world-class par. Ford...
...professorship is only one of many awards Steiner has received for his work, including Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and the Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy and the recipient of France's Legion d'honneur...
...fourth most abundant metal in the earth's crust, titanium surely deserves the attention it is enjoying. The birth of titanium cool probably started in 1997, when architect Frank Gehry used it in abundance for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Until then, the metal had been largely under cover. During the cold war, it was used primarily to build aircraft. When this need abated, the titanium industry promoted its other uses. Up to four times as strong as steel and half the weight, titanium is ideal for tennis rackets and skis. More cost-efficient ways to cut the metal...
...might have donated millions of hip-hop lyrics to the Taliban's guns and mortars, and thrown in the porn channels. We might have rounded up every surviving video of "Dances With Wolves." We could have turned the Guggenheim and Whitney museums upside down and shaken them lightly, and - to the net gain of civilization - offered up dozens of works to the Taliban's immolation. We might have offered up Marilyn Manson, Howard Stern, Regis Philbin and the entire...