Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chris Cain's The Stone Boy, a touching--if somewhat contrived view of a small town Montana family struck by tragedy--is unmistakably an ideological throwback to Ordinary People. Both films present pictures of ostensibly cohesive, happy families; both revolve around the same tragic insident--the accidental death of an older son--and in the process both depict fairly typical people in the throes of crisis...
Radical though the changes have been, the word hardly applies to Pelli's design. When the original museum structure, by Philip Goodwin and Edward Durrell Stone, opened in 1939, the architectural tone of 53rd Street-and of midtown Manhattan in general-was set by brownstones, mansions and beaux-arts commercial buildings. It was a world of rich, plum-pudding surfaces. When MOMA raised its polemic International Style façade of glass and polished marble, with those futuristic Swiss-cheese holes in the roof canopy, it looked apparitional. But now the context has shifted again. Thanks to the competitive...
...particular, Rosovsky is pleased with Spence's ability to learn by doing. This way Rosovsky says, "I kill two birds with one stone." Spence gets trained and the normal work gets done at the same time...
Wheel the stone away...
...amateur, Adams once wrote, photography is a "visual diary system." His more than a half-century of work recorded no events, captured no history. It was instead a kind of elegant unworded poetry whose lexicon consisted of mountains and trees, water and stone, the play of light and shadow. In a work like Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941, probably his most famed single image, Adams' camera revealed the spiritual still point of a turning world. The heart of his own spiritual world was Yosemite National Park, a place he visited in his work and imagination over and over again...