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...Husband-and-wife architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien were the perfect team for this vest-pocket New York City museum. Their famous feel for craft and material is something that folk artists understand. But their exercises in stone, glass and ingeniously textured metals are carried out within a modernist idiom that never looks quaint or "folkloric." Who knew you could work so many delightful configurations of space and surprising vistas--plus three staircases--into a relatively small building? It's a jewel-box museum that's a jewel in itself...
...Husband-and-wife architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien were the perfect team for this vest-pocket New York City museum. Their famous feel for craft and material is something that folk artists understand. But their exercises in stone, glass and ingeniously textured metals are carried out within a modernist idiom that never looks quaint or "folkloric." Who knew you could work so many delightful configurations of space and surprising vistas - plus three staircases - into a relatively small building? It's a jewel-box museum that's a jewel in itself...
...described Maus as a an “extraordinarily post-modernist work” and said that Spiegelman has a rare ability to understand society’s problems...
...meeting in the city's Moghul-modernist Nishtar Hall, a Conference for Peace and National Unity gathered together groups of every creed and allegiance. Rival proposals hummed from cell phone to cell phone, as exiles canvassed their old cronies inside Afghanistan. The Afghan leaders jockeying for power were talking, talking, talking--but plagued by indecision, misjudgment, self-interest, distrust...
...Most of the works follow absurd or dreamlike structures. It seems to be part of the psyche out there. Furthermore these artists' display broader graphical influences than most American cartoonists. Americans tend to use other cartoonists for inspiration, but these works put themselves in the context of the larger modernist and surrealist fine art movements. Only a few read like "regular" comix...