Word: nouvel
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...this case, their credibility. In what was already the year of the celebrity baby--Britney Spears playing hot potato with Sean Preston, Angelina Jolie posing like Madonna and child with Shiloh Nouvel--Suri inherited her dad's aura of mystery and its baggage. Cruise is one of those figures about whom there was always an official story and an unofficial story: the stuff you were allowed to say about him in respectable media and the stuff people actually cared about. The Scientology business, for instance. Cruise was a notoriously litigious member of a notoriously litigious institution. The press owns only...
...days, of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt--daughter of Angelina and Brad--when her wax figure was presented at Madame Tussauds in New York, making her the youngest subject, at the time of a figure's unveiling, in the museum's history...
...Jean Nouvel is standing in midair with his arms held high. O.K., he's not really in midair. He's standing on a window. Well, not exactly a window. It's a 1.5-m-by-3-m plate of glass that's set into the floor of a long corridor of his new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It's the corridor that's in midair. Actually, it's not simply a corridor. It's more a kind of covered bridge to nowhere that cantilevers 54 m across and 18 m above the city's West River Parkway. And then...
...What the Guthrie's inaugural visitors will come upon is an ingenious stage production in itself. A building that looks at times to be a castle keep, bunkered and enclosed, turns out to be an enchanted castle, full of witty gestures and brilliant sleights of hand. Nouvel knows that this indigo metal box is a very visible commission, and not just because it's located on a high bank of the Mississippi. From the time it was established in 1963 by Tyrone Guthrie, the legendary British director, the Guthrie has been one of the most prestigious regional theaters...
...Guthrie, by contrast, seems more weighty at first. But with its projections and "ghosts," its mirrors and terraces, it turns out to be a very open place. That would be part of Nouvel's love of paradox. If the Guthrie gains him the prestige in the U.S. he deserves, here's another paradox you can count on. His buildings may aim to dematerialize, but you'll be seeing a lot more of them...