Related posts —
A street view for the late William Sessions.
Some may prefer the Count to X street view. See as well . . .
For the title, see Icon Parking in a search for 54th in this journal.
For related iconic remarks, click on either image below.
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.
In memory of New York personality Pete Hamill ,
who reportedly died yesterday —
Seven years ago yesterday —
In memory of another New York personality, a parking-garage mogul
who reportedly died on August 9, 2005 —
Icon Parking posts and . . .
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.'"
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."
“The crystal was a sort of magnifying glass,
vastly enlarging the things inside the block.
Strange things they were, too.”
* For the meaning of the title, see an obituary by Roberta Smith
in this morning’s New York Times , and Today’s Sermon.
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