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About surface: craftsmanship in large buildings is supposed to be dead, killed by Modernist ideology and cost considerations. What this building says is that maybe craftsmanship has a high-tech future after all. To connect the de Young visually to its setting in Golden Gate Park, the architects have wrapped the structure in a copper skin embossed and perforated to produce, from a distance, the appearance of dappled sunlight filtering through trees. That pattern was copied from the blurred pixels of a digital photograph, then converted by computer into a blueprint to guide the manufacture of holes and indentations...
...discontents (as the saying goes) and post-postmodernism, artists are now confronted with new sociological and philosophical issues. At the same time, art has reached a very exciting time in its history because of the increasing number of materials and media which it utilizes. In February, Central Park was transformed into a saffron wonderland through “The Gates” project, 27 years in the making. It was a surreal project that was enjoyed by all types of citizens and visitors...
...earnestly New Agey in explaining his architecture (elemental earth forces, invisible Native American residues, UFOS and so on), critics and tastemakers have not always granted him his considerable due. But he has consistently produced marvelous, singular work, and the house he just finished in the Dallas suburb of Highland Park is particularly fine. Set on a steep, forested site in a neighborhood of conventionally swanky Texas mansions, the new house is a not-quite-severe collage of limestone, concrete and black steel, simultaneously grave and jazzy. Nor is it simply a multimillion-dollar one-liner: the entrance to the place...
WINNERS STEVEN SPIELBERG In the summer, a billion-dollar popular hit: Jurassic Park. In the winter, an Oscar-contending critical coup: Schindler's List...
...workers marched across the Yard in single file and complete silence, waving an American flag and holding signs. Reorganizing outside Cafe Gato Rojo, protestors said the war in Iraq is “sexist, racist, and classless.” The group then hopped on the Red Line to Park Street, where they had planned to meet with other demonstrators for a rally in Boston Common. But the Harvard group arrived in the Common about a half-hour early, so the protesters marched to the Armed Forces Career Center on Tremont Street. Outside the career center, the protesters chanted...