WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER
Think you have what it takes to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright and get into his prestigious School of Architecture? Now you can prove it.
In conjunction with two current exhibitions celebrating the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and his students, Google and the Guggenheim Museum are holding a competition for architectural designers of any level. The Design It: Shelter Competition is an extension of the exhibition Learning By Doing, and gives those of us who did not attend the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture a chance …
WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER
Think you have what it takes to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright and get into his prestigious School of Architecture? Now you can prove it.
In conjunction with two current exhibitions celebrating the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and his students, Google and the Guggenheim Museum are holding a competition for architectural designers of any level. The Design It: Shelter Competition is an extension of the exhibition Learning By Doing, and gives those of us who did not attend the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture a chance …
Although we’ve had a bit of a hiatus for the past month or so, we’ll be back to posting soon. For now, I’m implementing a new layout — and ask for your patience, as there will likely be some bugs as I work to fix it live. This new layout should present some exciting new possibilities for the site, and I look forward to posting some new thoughts very soon! Until then, thanks for understanding. Let us know what you think of the new layout in …
I recently wrote a guest post over at Blogs.com, on my top ten favorite art history and museum-related blogs. Check it out here, and let us know what you think of the list.
We read Martin Gladwell’s Blink for my museum studies seminar — a bestseller that focuses on moments of intinct and In the first chapter, he talks about the Getty Kouros controversy. Curators at the Getty, looking over the Greek statue for months, became convinced of its authenticity and purchased it at great price; yet others, such as Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan, saw it at first glance and simply knew it could not be real. Whether or not the Kouros is a forgery or not remains unknown, …
View of Dia:Beacon on the Hudson River, from Wikipedia.com
Step through sculptures made of strings, see yourself reflected in what seems to be a volcano of glass, walk through a towering rusted spiral, gaze into huge, endless geometric pits, and imagine who wrote each of a set of 4,000 vintage postcards. Where else can you do all these things but at the amazing Dia:Beacon?
I’ve attended college in the Hudson Valley for four years, and only now, in my final semester, have I at last managed to visit Dia:Beacon, the sprawling contemporary …
