Word: sert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Professor Wassily Leontief, head of the Harvard Society of Fellows, approached Rothko with a proposal to donate his artwork for the society's new meeting place, the penthouse of the Holyoke Center, to be designed by noted architect Jose Luis Sert, who also designed the Science Center and Peabody Terrace. Rothko, enamored with dreams of creating a public space with his artwork, was eager to bring this vision to fruition. Ideally, Rothko preferred that the viewer stand a mere 18 inches away from the surface of his paintings, so that his glowing canvases governed even peripheral vision. And still, what...
...Rothko commission. The walls of Harvard buildings, up to this point, had only been occupied by portrait after safe portrait of this or that Harvard luminary. At that time, the University was more a champion of contemporary architecture (Corbusier's Carpenter Center, Gropius's Graduate School dorm and Sert's eventual Holyoke Center) than a patron of modern visual...
...steps of Lamont Library, FAP students performed compositions created during the week. In addition, at the Carpenter Center's Sert Gallery, a student-curated exhibition of the Harvard University Art Museums' print collection was displayed...
...conversion of the former Jorge Luis Sert Gallery was kept secret to students until yesterday's debut...
...didn't take long for people to realize what an error Sert's tower, with its primitive strip mall, truly was. Contemporary critics of Holyoke Center, the Prudential Tower, and similar Cold-War pedestrian shopping arcades are right: The Holyoke Center Arcade is an alienating space...