Gehry Eisenhower Memorial offers a change in Design

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Admin

WASHINGTON (AP) — architect Frank Gehry and his team proposed changes Tuesday to the Dwight d. Eisenhower Memorial was planned for a site near the National Mall after hearing complaints from Ike’s family for months.

The family has said the design focuses too much on the Eisenhower’s humble Kansas roots, rather than achievement.

The Eisenhower Memorial Commission members held a public meeting to review the changes and said they were nearing a resolution to seek final approval the Gehry concept.

Gehry has proposed a memorial park will be framed with a tapestry of great metal featuring a landscape of Kansas to arouse Eisenhower’s time home in Abilene, right in the middle of the Park, Gehry is replacing the large images in reliefs with stone statues that stood about 9 feet high, showing Ike as a hero of World War II and as President.

In a letter to the Commission Tuesday, Gehry explains the changes. He could not attend because his company designed the set for the production of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Don Giovanni,” opening Friday.

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Maya painting in Guatemala: Xultun, glyph depicting the Mayan calendar but does not end …

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Admin

That’s Boston University archeologist William Saturno talks about the new digs of ancient Mayan structures hidden in the rainforest in the Peten region of Guatemala, according to a written statement released by the National Geographic Society. The community supported the excavation, which causes the Saturno.

Wall structure, believed to be the House, decorated with red and black unique glyphs not as seen on other Maya site, according to the statement.

David Stuart, Professor of Mesoamerican art and writing at the University of Texas-Austin, “we’ve never seen anything like it,” said in a statement. He managed the Glyph.

Some glyphs are associated with a variety of the Mayan calendar. But guess what: no sign of glyphs that the Mayans believe the world will end in 2012 – it’s just that the world would start a new cycle.

“It’s like the odometer of a car, with the Mayan calendar roll of 120, 000s to 130,000,” Anthony f. Aveni, Professor of astronomy and anthropology at Colgate University, said in a statement. “The car gets a step closer to the junkyard as the number handed over; Maya start over. “

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‘ Red ‘ plumbs the soul abstract artist Mark Rothko

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Admin

“Red,” winner of the Tony as best play Broadway’s 2010, found the artist Mark Rothko rule over dollars to his large abstract canvases, which uses a box of one, or possibly two, primary colors. She’s sick of people who ignore his art as something children can do. He hates even more well-heeled shoppers who buy only for status.

As with all the drama about an artist at work, “red” requires a powerful actor in the lead roles. In the current production in Ann Arbor performance network Theatre, Mark Rademacher’s brilliant housingmaps attest to the picture-perfect as Rothko, who spent the entire play with her new Assistant, Ken (Kevin Young). This is Ken stretching canvas, priming coat and listening Rothko’s passionate and sometimes paranoid rants.

The show the sketch just for two years in the late 1950s, when the Rothko was commissioned to decorate the walls of tony Four Seasons Restaurant. Some of the canvases, finished and unfinished, hanging from the walls in the living room a realistic paint spattered studio created by the set designer Monika Essen.

Some Rothko’s anger is reserved for emerging Pop Art poster boys such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. “Do you really think the Campbell Soup cans and comic books will be up next to me in 100 years?” he asked. Sometimes, a sketch of “red”, and even psychology, found as dramatized Wikipedia entry. Rothko recalls raised Jewish Russia and even hints at suicide himself, who did not come until 1970.

Director Carla Milarch concentrate on pacing, especially in one scene where Rothko kinetic and Ken preparation a canvas appears to be in second, a work (or at least the germ of one) are conjured before our eyes.

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Sacto 911: nine paintings, concrete floor workers and caught in Lincoln sting

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Admin

Nine people received a notice to appear in court for breach of contract, breach of State home improvement law during the sting in Lincoln.

Nine workers were bid on the painting, flooring and the concrete work for the sting, according to the State license Board contractors. Fraud investigation team set the Council’s operation undercover on Tuesday in a single family home in Lincoln.

The seven who bid more than $ 500 for labor and materials to deal with alleged violations for contracting without a license. Some also have to appear in court for illegal advertising. The contractor must put their license number in all advertisements.

Workers without a license can advertise to do work that is worth less than $ 500 but the advertisement must make clear that they are not a licensed contractor.

First conviction penalties for contracting without a license is up to six months in jail and/or up to $ 5,000 in fines.

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Olympic torch wins UK Design Award in 2012

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Admin

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London 2012 Olympic torch finished located above makes the torch in the Premier Group of factories in Coventry, United Kingdom, 23 April 2012.

LONDON (Reuters)-Olympic torch designers London has won a Design Award in 2012, the organisers announced on Tuesday.

London studio Barber Osgerby, a joint venture between Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, were selected from a field of 89 entries, and was honored at a ceremony at London’s Design Museum.

“There is no harder to get right than designing for the Olympics,” said Museum Director Deyan Sudjic Design. “Lightness and simplicity of the Olympic torch Barber Osgerby does just that.”

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