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...make your own analogies. After all, Steichen (1879-1973) bridged the transition from photography's early soft-focus, pictorialist style to crisp modernism. He also linked the art world between New York and Paris, and made his own life a bridge from artist to critic to commercial photographer to museum curator. He has been hailed as the greatest photographer of the 20th century, and the Jeu de Paume show - with more than 400 works on display - helps support the claim. This exhibition, surprisingly the first Steichen retrospective in Europe, continues until Dec. 30, before going to Lausanne, Zurich, Reggio Emilia...
...small scale, Harvard could open its shuttles to residents; extend bike paths and green streets into the neighborhood; allow the local elementary school—which currently lacks art space—to have consistent access to the new museum...
Busch-Reisinger Museum Light Display Machines: Two Works by László Moholy-Nagy Through Nov. 4, 2007 Beige curtains shield the two unusual pieces in question from the outside world. The first is a constantly rotating replica of “Light Prop for an Electric Stage” (the original lies dormant on the other side of the wall). This newly acquired light display machine looks a little like a kitchen on parade, its metallic clinks audibly expressing its kinetic appeal. A six-minute film, “Light Play: Black White Gray” (1930) plays...
...humble, and elegant blankness to represent traditional values of Japanese art, as the artist explained through a translator. Fukai, a gallery owner involved extensively with Japanese art around the world, saw a Web site featuring Takeuchi’s work after he had a solo exhibition in a small museum. She was immediately struck by its beauty, as well as its emotive possibilities. “I like very clean, very sophisticated, modern ceramic sculptures,” she said. “But I can also feel the emptiness of the pieces. They’re not just modern...
...idea," William Golden said of his investment-banking career, "was to make a lot of money and then do interesting things." So the longtime chairman of the board of the American Museum of Natural History--who turned away from his first love, physics, because he hated math--promoted science wherever he could. As an adviser to President Harry Truman, Golden helped create the National Science Foundation and came up with the idea of a presidential science adviser, a post that still exists...