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...hard to believe that the majestic new addition to the Denver Art Museum is Daniel Libeskind's first completed building in the U.S. In 2003 Libeskind won the competition to design the master plan for the World Trade Center site. For the next year or two, he was so pervasive a media presence--the black glasses, the Polish accent, the inexhaustible cheer--that you half expected a spiky Libeskind tower to erupt soon on every street corner. Then the Trade Center project got away from him. The New York City developer who held the lease on the Twin Towers brought...
What he knew then, what we all know now, is that 1,600 miles away in Colorado he had a considerable ace up his sleeve. Six years ago, he had won a competition to design the addition to Denver's principal art museum, which its director, Lewis Sharp, was pushing to expand into a more significant institution. At the time, Libeskind, now 60, had completed just one major commission, but that building was the Jewish Museum, an architectural thunderbolt that would be endlessly talked about, contested and studied for its zigzag configurations. It took a leap of faith for Sharp...
...Margaret Engel, managing editor of the Newseum, an Arlington, Va.-based interactive news museum said there are more important things to consider, like images that seemingly cast a divide between black and white survivors. Two in particular were now-infamous captions placed with Agence France-Presse and Associated Press photos. The AFP photo caption described two whites as "finding" food, while the AP caption described a black youth as "looting" a store...
...time pub thanks to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and Zac A Corker ’04. 2. Formerly a deserted hinterland populated by misguided freshman and math nerds on week nights. Longwood: 1. Boston neighborhood home to Harvard Medical School and the Museum of Fine Arts. 2. A half-hour trek away on the free M2 bus. 3. What you will curse when you realize the one book you really need is at Countway Library. Lowell House: 1. Holding a set of Russian bells hostage, just because they can. 2. Lacking in views...
...Jack the Ripper, the legendary criminal who gruesomely killed five prostitutes in Whitechapel, England in 1888. She has pledged 82 works by Impressionist artist Walter Sickert, whom she claims was the real “Jack the Ripper,” to Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. The 82 works include 24 paintings, 36 prints, and 22 drawings by Sickert, who was born in England in 1860 and was a pupil of James McNeill Whistler and Edgar Degas. “I wanted to find the very best museum who could handle this artwork and could also...