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...someone's garage trying to invent the next Mac. This is Microsoft's Red West campus, in the Olympian heights of Redmond, Wash. These sleep-deprived souls are software engineers--trained to write code, not dirty their hands with metalwork. Which explains why Angeloff has accidentally soldered the wrong pieces of circuitry together in one of the boxes. The engineers have been up so long on this frazzled assembly line because their boss--Bill Gates, a man whose tolerance for failure is minuscule--needs to demonstrate his company's tentative entry into the games-console market. "It's like...
...monks ought to survive by begging. In a way, this pious tradition is preserved by a show that is now on view at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Treasury of Saint Francis of Assisi" comprises some 70 works of art--paintings, sculpture, textiles, manuscripts and metalwork--drawn in part from the 13th century tesoro, or museum, of the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, Italy. Its main purpose is to draw attention to the disaster that struck the great pilgrimage center in September 1997, when an earthquake shook loose the vaults of its upper church, weakening...
Through July 3. "Pattern and Purpose: Decorative Arts of Islam. " This exhibit presents a selection of the ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and other decorative media that have been created to beautify life in the Muslim world...
Through July 3. "Pattern and Purpose: Decorative Arts of Islam." This exhibit presents a selection of the ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and other decorative media that have been created to beautify life in the Muslim world...
...called Frankenthaler's "most ambitious print project." The Gateway series is composed of twelve different bronze screens, one of which appears in the show. The screens are a unique blend of sculpture, painting and print-making: prints on handmade paper are framed in a bronze folding screen. The fluid metalwork echoes the painterly strokes. The piece is double-sided, with each side worked to an equal degree of completion; there is no "front" or "back...