From May 19, 2010 —
Meanwhile . . .
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Pharaonic
NY Times columnist's advice to the recent Harvard donor of $300 million —
"At least make them build you some weird pharaonic monument."
For the descendants of Leonard Shlain and Harry "Parkyakarkus" Einstein —
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Sunday, August 8, 2021
Themes
Remarks by Roberta Smith in the print version of The New York Times
on Friday, August 6, suggest a review . . .
Smith's remarks concerned a show that first opened in 2019
at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).
A MOCA-related post in this journal —
The Nachtmantel above is a painting by Jörg Immendorff,
who reportedly died at 61 in 2007 —
A less provocative theme from Log24 on the date of Immendorff's death:
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"The form, the pattern" — T. S. Eliot
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Sunday, May 2, 2021
Weimar 360
“… an internal ‘360’ review — in which staff members
offer anonymous feedback — revealed negative evaluations….”
— The New York Times today on MOCA, the
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
History of the “360 review” —
“The origins are with the German Reichswehr around 1930,
when the military psychologist Johann Baptist Rieffert
developed a methodology to select officer candidates.”
Related material suggested by a Harvardwood email today
reporting a recent alumni death —
See also CV Books.
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Saturday, May 1, 2021
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Design Warmed Over
Today's announcement of the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize
to Arata Isozaki suggests a review.
Isozaki designed the Museum of Contemporary Art building
in Los Angeles in 1986.
A related article from May 19, 2010 —
An excerpt from the Walker article —
Throwback fun with Chermayeff and Geismar —
Other news published on May 19, 2010 —
See also "Character of Permanence" in this journal.
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017
All-Spark Notes
"For years, the AllSpark rested, sitting dormant
like a giant, useless art installation."
— Vinnie Mancuso at Collider.com yesterday
Related material —
Giant, useless art installation —
Sol LeWitt at MASS MoCA. See also LeWitt in this journal.
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Friday, June 16, 2017
Chalkroom Jungle
At MASS MoCA, the installation "Chalkroom" quotes a lyric —
Oh beauty in all its forms funny how hatred can also be a beautiful thing When it's as sharp as a knife as hard as a diamond Perfect |
— From "One Beautiful Evening," by Laurie Anderson.
See also the previous post and "Smallest Perfect" in this journal.
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Thursday, June 15, 2017
Building Six
Berkshire tales of May 25, 2017 —
See also, in this journal from May 25 and earlier, posts now tagged
"The Story of Six."
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