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Hansen: Curvaceous peace in architecture
There are a few ramshackle stretches of Coast Highway in Laguna Beach cluttered with tired buildings and bad imagination. You become immune, driving by in a daze because there's nothing much to look at. But then you notice the curve. It's an organic,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Architecture, Shingles
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Balthazar Korab dies at 86; architect-photographer with wide-ranging eye
Balthazar Korab, an architect-turned-photographer with a wide-ranging eye whose moody, polished images captured the spirit of midcentury modern architecture and celebrated its masters, including Eero Saarinen and Mies van der Rohe, died Jan. 15 in Royal...
Tags: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Hungary, Budapest (Hungary), Stroke, Arts and Culture
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Oscar Niemeyer dies at 104; modernist Brazilian architect
Oscar Niemeyer, the architect whose soaring buildings form the heart of Brasilia, the instant modernist capital built in the wilds of Brazil in the late 1950s, has died. He was 104. Niemeyer, who had outlived his contemporaries to become the world's...Tags: Brasilia (Brazil), Hospitals and Clinics, United Nations, Paris (France), Brazil
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Gae Aulenti dies at 84; architect designed Paris' Musee d'Orsay
Gae Aulenti, an Italian architect who attained international prominence turning old buildings into modern museums, including Paris' Musee d'Orsay and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, died Wednesday at her home in Milan. She was 84. Her family told...
Tags: Philosophy, Human Interest, Paris (France), Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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New Haven's Beinecke Library is Swept Up in a Wave of Modernism
When did we become "modern"? Two tantalizing exhibitions at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library raise this important though probably unanswerable question. They are Architecture in Dialogue: The Peter Eisenman Collection at Yale and...
Tags: Philosophy, World War II (1939-1945), New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Fine Artists, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Greta Magnusson Grossman retrospective to open in Pasadena
At a Van Nuys auction house earlier this month, bidding on a seemingly simple 1940s aluminum and brass floor lamp by Greta Grossman rose to $10,000, then with the crowd buzzing, climbed past $15,000. Then $20,000. And $25,000. By the time the gavel fell...Tags: Arts and Culture, Museums, Architecture, Arts, Auction Service
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A hilltop Encino house where circular logic works
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. And if that glass house has two 12-sided, almost circular, mostly door-less structures with precious few straight interior walls? Then hanging art, relying on conventional right-angled furniture...
Tags: Example (music group), Auction Service
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After graduation, street artist Gaia takes flight
If you want to experience the work of street artist Gaia in its full scruffy glory, see it in the wild.
Drive south down North Collington Avenue, past Biddle and Eager and Chase. You will despair of spotting anything fresh in one blighted block after...Tags: Lexington Market, Human Interest, Edgar Allan Poe, New York City, Music
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Find one-of-a-kind cultural items Chicago's museum stores
More years ago than I'd like to say, I moved into a charmless cinder block dormitory on the campus of a land-grant university about eight hours away from my suburban Chicago home. To assuage homesickness and spruce the place up a bit, I hung a print of...
Tags: Music, Fine Artists, Banksy, Culture, Book
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Build the freeway extension as planned
As a local taxpayer and mature professional, I am dismayed at the various groups churning their self-serving issues for long decades (“Residents voice 710 plan concerns,” Feb. 27). Politicians are pandering to the local interests and various...Tags: Science and Technology, Tour Operations Industry, Whole Foods Market, Headaches, Politics
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Capri, Italy travel information
THE BEST WAY From LAX, connecting service (change of planes) to Naples is offered on Lufthansa and British. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $466, excluding taxes and fees. You then take the hydrofoil or ferry to Capri; prices start about $15, one...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Pizzas, Ingrid Bergman, Los Angeles International Airport, Travel
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A New Book from Michel Houellebcq: Very Little Sex Tourism Here
The French novelist Michel Houellebecq is possibly best known for pissing off Muslims and for endorsing sex tourism. Add to that a reputation for crazy boozing, and the guy doesn’t win loads of sympathy. (A mini flap over the author’s...Tags: Philosophy, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Architecture, Michelin Group, Paul Auster
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