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Victorian attitudes to children were famously forbidding. That might partly explain why London's Museum of Childhood is little heard of by most visitors to the capital. Then there's the building itself - a red-brick and iron shed, an unloved[an error occurred while processing this directive] remnant of the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington that in 1872 was rebuilt in Bethnal Green as a cultural outpost for the museum's overspill, particularly its collection of dolls and children's costumes. Some of the gloom and an aura of worthiness persisted even after its rebirth as the Museum...
...House, Annie R. Riley ’07 of Quincy House, and Amy R. Tao ’07 of Currier House. The fellowship was established in 1966 in memory of Michael C. Rockefeller ’60, who drowned off the coast of New Guinea following a Peabody Museum Expedition there in 1961. Busch said he plans to spend his year studying fishing culture in Indonesia after a work experience this summer off the coast of North Carolina piqued his interest in the industry. Spending time in both city ports and smaller villages, Busch will study the ways...
When the Denver Art Museum's new Daniel Libeskind--designed addition opened in October, the architectural reviews were mixed, but none of the critics said the place made them queasy. Then the visitors came. As they climbed to the upper floors of the titanium-and-granite-clad structure, which echoes the silhouette of the Rockies, some began feeling dizzy and nauseated. The likely culprits: a plunging 100-ft. atrium and walls slanted at odd angles. "If you have walls tilting toward or away from you, that disrupts people's balance," says University of Colorado architecture professor Taisto Makela...
...effect has a storied pedigree: similar reports dogged Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim museum in New York City. Spokeswoman Andrea Fulton says the museum has received only eight written complaints, but concedes "walls that aren't at 90° angles do present a different sort of spatial experience...
...blue Venn diagram, but it looks terrible on my coffee table. I hope the Person of the Year cover will not be an abstract artist's caricature of somebody on a white background. If I want to see that kind of art, I'll go to a museum. Karen Walters Paradise, California...