Word: muralism
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...1940s, while watching his young son frolic on the beach, the artist Constantino Nivola came up with an idea he thought was brilliant: painting on sand. The art world would not be forever changed, but institutional buildings everywhere would come to know the scourge that is The Ugly Mural...
...collection, and that instead makes room for, among other things, student groups, which are currently crowded into far too few offices beneath the freshmen dorms. Quad students, on the other hand, fear that, while dancers gain crucial practice and performance space, the rest will lose important recreational and intra-mural sports space, along with access to texts and study space. We worry that we will now be making the walk down to the river for basketball and books, along with the current classes, extracurriculars, and social events. We would love to dream with the deans, but we fear a nightmare...
...continue our full intra-mural program at the Quad, as the two basketball courts are rarely in use at the same time,” Gross wrote in an e-mail. “I understand the strong reaction of some students, but I ask for their patience in the planning process. This represents a real opportunity...
...wonderful job of recreating the chemistry between the nurturing Raina and the lonely Craig. You can feel that special, adolescent magnetism that comes from two alienated teenagers. In a key moment, Raina gives Craig a crazy-quilt blanket that she made. In return she asks him to paint a mural on her bedroom wall. In Raina, Craig finds his muse and reconnects with the urge to draw that he had recently abandoned as a pointless waste of God's time. This being a comic, we actually get to see this inspiration manifested. Thompson indulges in pages of Raina sleeping...
...Christie's contemporary art sale in New York last month, the top lot was a huge mural painting by Mark Rothko that the auction house hailed as a "masterwork" and "of particular importance." When the bidding was over, No. 9 (White and Black on Wine) had sold for $16.4 million - a record for a Rothko at auction, as Christie's was quick to point out. What Christie's didn't trumpet was the identity of the seller: François Pinault, the self-made French billionaire whose holdings happen to include Christie's itself. The Rothko was in good company...