20040629
Chinese Architects and the Big Names. (china daily)
.: Jonas 10:14 AM
20040625
'Fahrenheit 9/11' Breaks NYC Records!
The movie, which aims a critical eye at President Bush and his prosecution of the war in Iraq, sold $49,000 worth of tickets at the Loew's Village 7 theater, beating the venue's single-day record of $43,435 held by 1997's "Men in Black," according to distributors Lions Gate Films and IFC Films. (michaelmoore.com)
The film's marketing campaign has been masterful and resonates with the MoveOn millions and so many others who have become frustrated with the mainstream media fumbling of coverage of politics and the war. If the revolution will not be televised, there is nothing to stop the 2004 pop cult revolt from playing at the mall and inciting a prairie fire of political opposition. Or so many hope.(mediachannel.org)
.: Jonas 10:44 AM
20040624
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.: Jonas 11:51 AM
20040623
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.: Jonas 9:52 AM
20040621
Berlin Berlin
A new phenomena called chess-boxing has received so much attention in Berlin that a club devoted entirely to it is opening this summer. A chess-boxing match consists of 11 rounds, each round consisting of four minutes of chess and two minutes of boxing.
.: gisela 4:52 PM
20040618
Whitney Hires Renzo Piano to Design Its Expansion
Renzo Piano has been hired by the Whitney Museum of American Art to design an expansion for its permanent collection and for much-needed public and educational space. The decision was made at a special board meeting yesterday after a six-month search by the Whitney's architect selection committee.
Mr. Piano's plan is far more modest in size and scale than the ambitious $200 million proposal of the Rotterdam architect Rem Koolhaas, which the board abandoned last year, saying it would have been too expensive both to build and to operate. Most important, museum officials said, they hope the design will not have a roofline higher than the Whitney's existing home, the 1966 cantilevered granite fortress designed by Marcel Breuer on Madison Avenue at 75th Street.
NYTimes
.: gisela 11:49 AM
20040617
Amy Goodman speaks in New York City:
Wednesday, June 30, 7:00 PM
Barnes & Noble
82nd & Broadway
Wednesday, July 7, 7:30 PM
Exit Art
475 Tenth Avenue at 36th Street
Free
Amy Goodman, host of the national, daily radio/TV program Democracy Now!, is on a national tour to mark the launch of her first book "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them" (co-written with her brother, journalist David Goodman).
DemocracyNow
.: Jonas 2:29 PM
Future Systems win a RIBA Award
The department store that Future Systems built for Selfridges in Birmingham won the firm a 2004 RIBA award. Congratulations!
Future Systems
.: gisela 11:36 AM
20040616
New Outlook from the East
The renovation of the Guggenheim Museum on NYC's 5th Avenue will feature a sculpture garden on the roof of F.L. Wright's masterpiece.
.: gisela 12:32 PM
20040615
Herbert Muschamp to Step Aside
"The American skyline of the future will have to get along without any more chunks of quartz, children’s balloons or moon palaces: Herbert Muschamp, The New York Times’ fanciful architecture critic, has told his bosses that he’s getting tired of his current duties and intends to step down before long.
"He’s still the architecture critic," said culture editor Jonathan Landman. But according to Mr. Landman, Mr. Muschamp said he feels that he’s "running out the string"—an unusually straightforward and familiar metaphor, given Mr. Muschamp’s record."
NYObserver
.: gisela 11:39 AM
China is not alone in seeking to advertise its rising power through architecture. Societies on the rise, like the United States in the 1920's and Japan in the 1980's, often spend lavishly on new designs that critics consider too grand or iconoclastic. (NYtimes)
.: Jonas 10:22 AM
20040614
Berlin's indebted city government scrapped building a center documenting Gestapo activities during Hitler's reign. The federal government has now assumed the financing and will announce a new architectural competition. (Deutsche Welle)
.: Jonas 11:27 AM
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