Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night last week Jan Drake draped herself in her best stone-marten stole and joined Little Augie for drinks at the Copa, then went on to a spaghetti house (Husband Drake had a nightclub engagement in Washington). After dinner, they headed for the Drake home in Queens to look at boxing matches on TV. They never got there. Forty-five minutes after leaving Manhattan, Augie's black Cadillac was found on a quiet street in Queens, its motor still running. Jan Drake was slumped against the car window, one bullet hole in her temple, a second in her neck...
These three masters, quite understandably, form the backbone of this handsome show, but their younger colleagues and epigoni contribute a number of exciting works themselves. Perhaps the most well-known of the new buildings, Edward Stone's vibrant New Delhi Embassy, deserves top honors for its succinct and artistic suggestion of the filigree of India's most well-known monument, the Taj Mahal. A surprise in this exhibition is provided by the exciting and imaginative project of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill for the Banque Lambert in Brussels. So ingenious is its form of detail and so striking its balancing...
Last week in Palo Alto, amid the pomp of an academic convocation, President J. E. Wallace Sterling dedicated Stanford's handsome new $21 million medical center (complete with 434-bed hospital), designed by Manhattan Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME, March 31, 1958). For the university's med students, who can now fulfill their degree requirements without commuting to another campus, the center is an unqualified blessing. But in San Francisco medical circles, the center is an object of much discussion and no little concern...
There, in the library he discovered Roger Fry's Vision and Design, with its contention that there was more power and freedom of form in the sculpture of African savages than in most "civilized" art. The idea struck Moore's imagination as sharply as a chisel striking stone. After two years at Leeds, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London and discovered the primitive sculpture in the British Museum. "I was in a daze of excitement. I would literally float home on the top of an open-deck...
Beautiful or not, his works took on a brooding presence, seemed inhabited by a nameless spirit in a way that a savage artist would recognize. The swelling curves of a woman also suggested the surge of a hillside, the texture of water-shaped stones. The figures swallowed the light here, emitted it there, and a viewer walked away feeling that he had seen stone or wood or bronze touched with life...