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...third section the Mori show focuses on artists and architects who took buildings apart as a means of arriving at new ways to put them together. In the early 1970s the architect-artist Gordon Matta-Clark would buzz-saw transverse slices out of entire wood and plaster structures, giant incisions that would turn the buildings into a fascinating kind of site-specific sculpture. His work shook up the very idea of a building, a practice carried further by the generation of Deconstructivist architects like Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman and Daniel Libeskind, who came to prominence in the '80s with work...
...fame, in tails and top hat), who kills felines to make flutes from their souls, and Colonel Sanders (the fried-chicken guy, in white suit and string tie), who moonlights as a back-alley pimp and supernatural fixer. Fans of Murakami will find none of this unusual. Since Norwegian Wood, his 1989 tale of nostalgia and loss (4.5 million copies and counting), the former Tokyo jazz-club owner, now 56, has gained worldwide fame for his coolly narrated stories of odd disappearances, bizarre quests, disaffected youth and a Japan struggling with its wartime past. He is also noted...
...miles to the north. They had audaciously established a settlement on Greenland's comparatively mild southern coast, but they too overextended their environment and paid the price. Among many other blunders, they shortsightedly depleted the local forests (deforestation is a major theme in Collapse), which left them without the wood they needed to smelt iron. Icelanders were stunned when Greenlanders sailed into port in ships held together with wooden pegs and baleen instead of nails...
...feathered arc of a doctorbird's tail, the spicy tang of jerked pork, the gray serenity of Blue Mountain mist. These are images and sensations from a particular place, a certain spot in the Caribbean that has been called "the Land of Wood and Water" by some and "The Land of Look Behind" by others. Columbus deemed it "the fairest island that eyes have beheld" and listed it as Yamaye in a log entry in 1493. The Indians who were the first inhabitants called it Xaymaica and other variations; Spanish invaders called the place "Santiago" but after the British took...
...Wabi-sabi in the home, according to Lawrence, is "flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather and loving use leave behind." Although at first glance it may seem a bit shabby chic, a style that cultivates a worn patina, it differs in attitude, asking that we "set aside our judgments and our longing for perfection" and concentrate instead on "the beauty of things as they are." It celebrates the tiny flaws that make everything?your mismatched kitchen chairs, a worn teapot...