Related material — Icon Parking and . . .
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Iconic
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Icon Parking
For the title, see Icon Parking in a search for 54th in this journal.
For related iconic remarks, click on either image below.
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This post was suggested by the Dec. 30, 2016, date of the
death in Nuremberg of mathematician Wolf Barth. The first
image above is from a mathematics-related work by
John von Neumann discussed here on that date.
See also Wolf Barth in this journal for posts that largely
concern not the above Barth, but an artist of the same name.
For posts on the mathematician only, see Barth + Kummer.
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Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Cultist Drama
From a post of last Friday, June 2 —
See also Transformers in this journal.
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Transformers (2007)
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Friday, June 2, 2017
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Art Spaces (For Frank Sinatra and Janet Leigh)
From The New York Times today —
MoMA’s Makeover Rethinks the Presentation of Art
"The new design calls for more gallery space and a transformed
main lobby, physical changes that, along with the re-examination
of art collections and diversity, represent an effort to open up MoMA
and break down the boundaries defined by its founder, Alfred Barr.
'It’s a rethinking of how we were originally conceived,' Glenn D. Lowry,
the museum’s director, said in an interview at MoMA. 'We had created
a narrative for ourselves that didn’t allow for a more expansive reading
of our own collection, to include generously artists from very different
backgrounds.'"
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Friday, December 11, 2015
Street View
Continued from Once Upon a Matrix (November 27, 2015).
Click image below to enlarge.
“… Which makes it a gilt-edged priority that one of us
gets into that Krell lab and takes that brain boost.”
— American adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest , 1956
Midrash —
"Remember me to Herald Square."
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Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Event
"Bauhaus Designs for Modern Life —
Come to the Harvard Art Museums
for this Gallery Talk at 12:30."
Another design —
Street view in Oslo, August 2014 :
Take a walk on the wild side… or not.
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Friday, June 27, 2014
Night of the Iguana Club
“We specialize in bachelorette parties.”
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Tuesday September 13, 2005
Lutheran Rhythm,
continued:
Early Jazz Guitarist
Published: Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005
continued:
Death on 9/11
Early Jazz Guitarist
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005
Al Casey, a guitarist whose playful acoustic rhythms and solos were a defining feature of Fats Waller’s band in the 1930’s and 1940’s, died on Sunday [9/11] in Manhattan. He was 89….
Mr. Casey played and recorded with Louis Armstrong in 1944 when both were recognized as leading jazz musicians in the Esquire magazine readers’ poll….
A 90th birthday celebration for Mr. Casey, scheduled for Thursday evening at St. Peter’s Church, 54th Street and Lexington Avenue, will now be his musical memorial service, open to the public.
That’s St. Peter’s Lutheran Church.
See also the previous entry.
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Saturday, November 20, 2004
Saturday November 20, 2004
Janet's Tea Party
From October 5, 2004:
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For Janet Leigh,
who died on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2004:
On the redesigned "… the ultimate judgment will have to wait: Taniguchi himself told a MoMA curator who'd complimented him that considering the building without the art in it is like admiring the tea cup without the green tea. Next month the museum will have art on the walls and crowds in the galleries—and then the tea ceremony will begin." — Cathleen McGuigan, Newsweek, |
The art of Theo van Doesburg suggests
the following "tea party" mini-exhibit:
the following "tea party" mini-exhibit:
From |
  
From the book Tangram
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Tuesday, October 5, 2004
Tuesday October 5, 2004
Tea Privileges
On Janet Leigh,
who died Sunday:
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MARCO — What’s your last name? ROSIE — Chaney. I’m production assistant for a man named Justin who had two hits last season. I live on 54th Street, a few doors from the Modern Museum of Art, of which I’m a “tea privileges” member, no cream. I live at 53 West 54th Street, apartment 3B. Can you remember that? MARCO — Yes. ROSIE — El Dorado 5-9970. Can you remember that? MARCO — Yes. |
On the redesigned
Museum of Modern Art,
11 West 53rd Street:
“… the ultimate judgment will have to wait: Taniguchi himself told a MoMA curator who’d complimented him that considering the building without the art in it is like admiring the tea cup without the green tea. Next month the museum will have art on the walls and crowds in the galleries—and then the tea ceremony will begin.”
— Cathleen McGuigan, Newsweek,
issue dated Oct. 11, 2004
Related material:
Review of A Man and His Art, a book of paintings by Frank Sinatra:
“… he’s a solid abstractionist with an excellent eye for color, composition and geometric precision.”
— Booklist (Jan. 15, 1992)
“Blue Eyes took his Sunday painting seriously.”
— Eric Banks in Artforum Magazine,
September 2004
See also
Art Wars.
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