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...things in. The Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry's magnificent new building, is located across the street from a big multilevel parking lot. That's a very Los Angeles place to be, of course, but not a great place to be seen from. Gehry's other masterpiece, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, stretches out along the Nervion River, across from any number of cafes, where you can kick back and enjoy how it reclines along the water like Cleopatra on her barge. The Disney Hall, which opens this week in a glittery blast of galas and concerts, deserves...
...prominent working artist with experience and connections in the field, Condo’s works have been collected by such prestigious institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Condo’s work is not limited to painting—in the past he had shown a series of Pop Art inspired silkscreens at Pace Wildenstein, and has an ongoing exhibit at the Galerie Bruno Bischofberger in Switzerland of some thirty gilt-bronze portraits of semi-mythical figures...
...Yorker by birth and a poet for the last 30 years, Revell is the author of seven previous collections of poetry, including Erasures in 1992 and Arcady in 2002. A recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundations, he currently lives with his wife and son in Las Vegas, commuting to Salt Lake City to teach...
...Because real by itself just doesn't do it for them. They're working on two unlikely projects: developing ceramic tiles that can change color and creating entrances to the New York City subway that look inviting. And consider Rashid's take on the outlandishly curvaceous, Frank Gehry--designed Guggenheim Bilbao: "It's a very contemporary and fascinating building but still somewhat classical, rooted in the world as we know it." But he can fix that: "Wouldn't it be fantastic if it revolved, if the skin mutated, if you could tell what kind of shows were going on inside...
...scholar and professor, Ford received many awards and fellowships, including a Harvard Sheldon Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and the American Philosophical Society...