Now, some decades after I first fell in love with Giacomett’i's uncompleted plans for City Square – an enchanted silence descends upon me every time I come upon his work unexpectedly. Nothing completes a museum visit like stumbling upon a Giacometti.

I have yet still to read this article, but the image of the Design Museum Holon slated to open in Israel is striking.  First of all it reminds me of an updated and dare I say more aesthetically pleasing  version Wright’s Guggenheim Museum.  Secondly, the museum was designed by Ron Arad – who is my new architect crush – he follows in the line of Calatrava and Bill Clinton [who as you know is not an architect but has an affinity for chubby interns so you know I include him just for sport].

The MoMA recently did a show on Ron Arad that blew my mind.  I had never heard of or saw his work before, for weeks I walked around thinking “Ron Arad, YOU’S A GENIUS!”

Last week, I went to see FELA! It was really entertaining but missed a little of the magic necessary to make my brain sparkle.

Now truthfully, I have not seen many Broadway shows [I have a way off Broadway/East Village type budget] but I thought the set design was really innovative – not super technical with hydraulics and clever stage use, like Dream Girls at the Apollo, but I have never seen a show where they extended the set design that far into the audience space. The set designers did a clever recreation of Fela’s famed performance space and the writer and director played with the fourth wall – engaging the actual audience as if we were actually attending one of Fela’s performances.

I think it was also super evident [even if I didn't know this before hand] that the performance was directed by a dancer. Of course the dance sequences were well choreographed and interesting but I think Mr. Jones also did a great job of using the whole performance space and creating an environment where the dancers, musicians, and audience members seemed to move within shared space.

That said, I’m a plot girl and the first act had precious little plot – though there was a funny bit about pale tea drinking visitors from the north overstaying their welcome and stealing things like ….petroleum and PEOPLE leaving nothing behind but gonorrhea and Jesus.

The show was still pretty awesome and I would go see it again, [provided the tickets were discounted]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela

Highlights
1. 9 cars suspended from the ceiling in a free fall with lights coming
out simulating a car bomb
2. Manmade river with a raft boat that adults can get into and push
themselves down the stream [seriously!!!!]
3. A pack of wolves running along the rotunda that eventually take off
(you can walk with the pack)
4.  Live artists sculpting life size sculptures from an earlier
imperialist period – sculptures only meant to last for duration of
show
5.  Fireworks & gun powder

Check out the video of the installation
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/exhibition_pages/cai.html

Go & be inspired!

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• • Work with the Director of Programs and other program associates to create and implement strategies that increase cultural partner participation.
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“Blue Iris brings together the dependable aspects of blue, underscored by a strong, soul-searching purple cast. Emotionally, it is anchoring and meditative with a touch of magic.”

Personally, I’m appalled by my lack of awareness of there being a color of any year – this is news!!! I’m not being facetious, check out the full article in NYTimes

But why are the designers so pissy about all the excitement over Pantone’s announcement – well you see Pantone is a color service – only the designer can decide what’s in

In other news – referring to my last post on Pratt Foundry, there was an article is yesterday’s NYTimes about the foundries in India who make NYC manholes. Not surprisingly, it’s cheaper to do this is in India than it is here. Our foundry workers get $25 an hour whereas the factory workers in India get paid a few dollars a day.

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It was a great way to spend the day, art historians, chemists, studio artists all coming together to watch one of the nexuses of where art and function meet. Learn more about lost wax process here

Thursday, November 15 2007

6:30 PM

Main Building (Brooklyn) Room 230