Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says Barnes: "We wanted the visitor to remember painting in space, sculpture against sky and a sense of continuous flow, a sense of going somewhere." Barnes, 68, studied with Bauhaus Leaders Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer at Harvard, and has kept faith with their nononsense, functionalist International Style. His new 43-story IBM building in Manhattan, for all its green granite elegance, carries this style to an absurdly defiant extreme. His Dallas museum, on the other hand, is a joy precisely because at a time of architectural razzle-dazzle, it is so endearingly simple. It is thoughtfully and beautifully designed...
...back as the turn of the century, the Russian space pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote about large spinning habitats in space. But until recently any such idea was regarded as no more than pie in the sky by the upper reaches of the Reagan Administration. The turnabout came in December, when NASA Administrator James Beggs met with the President at the White House. The space chief emerged from that close encounter, in the words of one official, as if he "were orbiting on cloud nine...
...always softened by its atmospheric envelope. It is the action of light, more than any other first impression, that one remembers from Veronese's Venus and Adonis, for example, with its rosy flesh and red tunic perfectly set against the cool, remote blue-greens of forest and sky...
...strangest lyrical effusions of the High Renaissance, a painting that almost (but not quite) ruptures its own decorum in the interests of poetry: the Virgin, momentarily out of her wits, cringes before the prospect of divine insemination, while God makes ready to descend from the sky like a high diver; the ethereal angel, pale blue and ivory, gestures threateningly; a tabby cat arches its back in terror, as well it might...
...cost: $50,000) into a hugely lucrative charter line in the 1950s. In 1979 he offered one-way, cross-country tickets for $99.99, but major-airline competition, a strike, high fuel costs and a grounded fleet of DC-10s during a safety scare nearly plucked World out of the sky...