Word: guggenheims
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...step from here to a world in which first-graders sue parents for sending them to bed after dinner? Probably not, if only because the court's ruling is so entirely outside the general trend of law in this area. The ruling is "out of whack," says professor Martin Guggenheim, who specializes in children's law at New York University. "A child can't go to the dentist without permission, can't have any kind of emergency surgery, can't choose school, religion, clothing, housing. If you took this ruling to its logical extension, a child would have the right...
Since then Hadid's paintings and drawings, a medium for the exploration of her design, have appeared in a number of museums, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco and the Architectural Association in London...
...most famous product of this new impulse is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Frank Gehry's cascading structure, which has tripled tourism to funky Bilbao, has been a watershed, an instant icon that was featured in the latest James Bond movie and has mayors everywhere clamoring for their own "Bilbao." As a consequence, any number of designs that once seemed too radical to imagine, much less assemble, are being readied for construction. One of them is Daniel Libeskind's tumbling addition to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which looks like a cross between a building...
...continual exploration of that question 'How do we come down to the essence of things?'" What worries some people is that a few decades of promiscuous creativity will clog the world with second-rate imitation Gehrys, strenuously entertaining streetscapes and Times Squares in every town square. "The Guggenheim in Bilbao is a unique object," says Robert Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture. "Three Bilbaos in a row would be a fun house." So if the fun gets all too tiring, maybe those simple boxes will come back again after...
Shue is married to director Davis Guggenheim, who has worked on episodes of ''ER,'' ''NYPD Blue,'' and ''Party of Five...