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Exhibition review: 'Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown' at MOCA-PDC
Culture MonsterThe photographs on display in "Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown" have been rescued, in essence, from the cutting-room floor. It just happens to be one of the richest, most revelatory cutting-room...... -
Monster Mash: 'American Idiot' fans gush; a hole in Nero's palace; Anna Nicole Smith's Derby dresses
Culture Monster--Free expression: Fans of the new Broadway musical "American Idiot" are scribbling their thoughts and statements of love on the entrance wall of the St. James Theatre, where the show -- which is based on a Green Day album --...... -
'Conversations With Frank Gehry' by Barbara Isenberg
Conversations With
Frank Gehry
Barbara Isenberg
Alfred A. Knopf: 352 pp., $40
My hopes, I'll admit, were not especially high for "Conversations With Frank Gehry," Barbara Isenberg's collection of recent interviews with the architect. Particularly in...Tags: Arts and Culture, University of Southern California, Education, Alvar Aalto, Architecture
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U.S. Embassy in Berlin: It's dull
Times Architecture CriticBARACK OBAMA is planning a visit to the German capital this month -- reportedly to deliver a major foreign-policy speech at Pariser Platz, the stately, almost perfectly proportioned plaza that has emerged since the fall of the Berlin Wall as the heart...Tags: Arts and Culture, U.S. Department of State, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, World War II (1939-1945)
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At auction: architectural history
Times Architecture CriticAs part of a high-powered campaign to promote Richard Neutra's 1946 Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, which it auctioned during its big evening sale of postwar and contemporary art two weeks ago, Christie's produced a glossy booklet on the house and its...Tags: Arts and Culture, Real Estate, Francis Bacon, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), University of California, Irvine
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Where Modernism hit an Art Deco wall
Sociologist NATHAN GLAZER is the author of "From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City," to be published in April.THE AMERICAN Institute of Architects recently asked a national sample to judge American buildings, monuments and other structures. Each participant in the survey rated some of the 247 buildings nominated by the institute, and the scores were tallied...Tags: Arts and Culture, University of Virginia, Jane Jacobs, Charles, Prince of Wales, Education
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Patron of fear
Times Staff WriterFew modern dictators have been more enamored of architecture or have used it to greater harm than Saddam Hussein. During nearly a quarter-century of absolute rule, he launched a series of building programs whose ambition and scale fundamentally altered...Tags: Arts and Culture, Heads of State, Iraq, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Dining and Drinking
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Harris: Digital push builds to rectify 1991 Pritzker Prize omission
Denise Scott Brown has worked side by side with her husband, architect Robert Venturi, since the early 1960s, joining his firm and marrying him in 1967 and becoming the firm's principal in charge of planning in 1969. In 1991, Venturi won their...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Academy Awards, Art Institute of Chicago, Justice System, Gold Coast
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Columbus, Ind. — glitter amid the rust
Special to Tribune NewspapersIn the heart of the so-called Rust Belt lies an extraordinary example of what vision and open-mindedness did for a central Indiana industrial town set amid farm fields. By all rights, Columbus, Ind., should look like many other Midwestern towns of 40,000...Tags: Arts and Culture, Ice Cream, Eliel Saarinen, Hamburgers, Bloomington (Monroe, Indiana)
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NJ House Sets Sail To New LI Home
GLEN COVE, N.Y. (WPIX) -- Waterfront houses aren't rare on the Long Island sound, ones that sail across the water are a different story. So it's no surprise throngs of people gathered to watch this iconic house travel by sea to it's new home in Glen Cove...Tags: Long Island, WPIX
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Wiener wonderland
Kamin is the Tribune's Architecture CriticLet's be frank. This town has a lot of red-hot buildings by the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright and (before too long) Frank Gehry. So the humble Chicago hot dog stand doesn't seem like the kind of thing an architecture buff would want to chew on. But hold...Tags: Arts and Culture, Photography, Ray Kroc, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Restaurants
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Best of the century
We tend to view the arts as evolutionary, with events and works slowly altering the course of different disciplines. But once in a while, there is a convergence of movies or plays or musical compositions that are so significant that they create waves,...Tags: The Supremes (music group), Art Institute of Chicago, Festive Events, Vincent Persichetti, Paul Taylor
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