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...energy of moving water into electricity at Hoover Dam. Normal car brakes do convert kinetic energy into heat. And hybrid cars do have a set of normal brakes for use when necessary. But the heat created that way is dispersed into the atmosphere, not converted into electricity. Dexter Ford, manhattan beach, california...
...mere pigment to summon immense reservoirs of feeling, and who took his own life when the struggle proved too much. This is why one of the most baffling episodes in Rothko's story has to do with the Seagram murals, a suite of vast, brooding canvases he produced for Manhattan's sparkling Four Seasons restaurant. Rothko was an artist who could say, and mean it: "The sense of the tragic is always with me when I paint." And the Four Seasons is the kind of place that serves petit fours with the coffee...
...energy of moving water into electricity at Hoover Dam. Normal car brakes do convert kinetic energy into heat. And hybrid cars do have a set of normal brakes for use when necessary. But the heat created that way is dispersed into the atmosphere, not converted into electricity. Dexter Ford, MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIF...
...York Times. Still to come are an addition to the Art Institute of Chicago; new buildings for the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; a makeover of the Harvard University Art Museum; and a satellite facility in Manhattan for the Whitney Museum of American Art. It's Renzo Piano's world. We're just living...
...five adjacent bays with travertine walls, is one of the most gratifying art-exhibition spaces in the world. But not everything Piano touches turns out as nicely. In pre-construction models, his New York Times headquarters looked delicate almost to the point of evanescent--quite a trick for a Manhattan skyscraper. But in the execution, the ceramic rods Piano devised to screen the glass walls are bulky, and the battleship gray exterior looks anything but weightless...