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Okrent adroitly retells the famous story of young Nelson Rockefeller's run-in with Diego Rivera, the Mexican artist whose mural for the lobby of the RCA Building--a dreadful kitsch effulgence, by the way--was demolished on Nelson's orders after Rivera slipped in a portrait of Lenin. Okrent is also supremely funny on the subject of S.L. (Roxy) Rothafel, creator of superabundant picture palaces along Broadway, those Moorish-boorish Odeons, who was the man chosen to guide development of Radio City Music Hall. Once he was in the job, fate teamed Roxy with Deskey--Donald Deskey, the great...
Quincy residents have to deal daily with two of Nivola’s celebrated works: “Mural in the Main Lobby,” surprisingly located in the house’s main lobby, and “Dining Hall Graffito...
Quincy House master Jayne Loader says in an e-mail that the artwork sparked “angry reactions to the mural by alumni back in the day.” The 1969 pamphlet “Quincy House, Its Art and Architecture,” corroborates: “Extremely controversial, the graffito has been described by irate alumni as ‘fingerpainting’ or ‘insane doodling...
Head Tutor of Visual and Environmental Studies and painting professor Paul Stopforth marvels at “the fact that people continue to have some kind of dialogue around the [Quincy mural], that it arouses such passions.” He offers another example of much-reviled art, that of Henry Moore, the sculptor whose nude is displayed outside Lamont Library...
...sand art. “Untitled” is a travesty in yellow, red, green and sea-green. A strangely disproportionate owl standing on a red box, a scary clown face and a green and white striped alien are only some of the many characters the mural depicts. You can find it on the long wall to the left of Science Center A. The artist Aviva Green’s meditations on puke (actually the paintings “Soft” and “Landing,” both 1980) hang on the next wall...