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...East German art," says M?rz, as he slices a Wiener schnitzel in the museum restaurant. "Every painting, every object that is presented here, has to stand on its own within the uncompromising walls of this exhibition hall." That's a demanding standard, since the gallery, Mies van der Rohe's glass pavilion, is a monument to Western Modernism, standing guard across from Potsdamer Platz. At the time of its construction, it stood near the Wall. Another irony is that both März and Blume worked as curators in the National Gallery in East Germany...
...Ahead of His Time The German architect Mies van der Rohe died in 1969, but his influence can be seen on office towers from Chicago to Shanghai. His early work is examined in "Mies van der Rohe 1905-1938," which runs until March 2 at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. The show features models, photographs, plans and original drawings. Mies, as he's widely known, had the misfortune to be working in Berlin when the Nazis came to power. In 1938 he moved to the U.S. in search of more open-minded patrons. He found a niche at the Armour...
...world's first aluminum public sculpture. It also became the material of choice for products from coffee pots to vacuum cleaners. But aluminum seems to find its most frequent expression as seating. There's an eclectic range of chairs in the Design Museum show, including Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair, designs by Charles and Ray Eames, and Philippe Starck's pale green barstool made for German film director Wim Wenders' house. The most eye-catching is Australian Marc Newson's Lockheed Lounge, a sensuous plastic shape covered with riveted aluminum panels. The metal has even worked...
...fitfully into churches. In a way they have been lending their validity to religion, at least in the eyes of secularized society. Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn all designed great and very spare modern churches. The sole foray into church design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the great founding master of modernism, was a nondenominational chapel in brick, steel and glass built in 1952 on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. To put it mildly, it's a parsimonious expression of faith. The man who said, "God is in the details," did not provide...
Beyond that, Rohe, who scored 17 in a 65-57 loss to the Crimson in Ithaca in February, established himself as a viable third option last season. Vandenberg also has a significant upside, but it appears the young Cornell team won’t have to wait long to enter “wait ‘til next year” mode...