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The New Yorker has an interesting look into the very complicated world of Lady Gaga's clothing. Last week she performed in L.A. at a benefit for the financially troubled Museum of Contemporary Art, wearing a hat designed by Frank Gehry, at the behest of Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli. Ultimately, none other than Prada made Gehry's sketch a reality. Gehry explains: "Since I’ve never designed...
Atlantic Yards Report Yet another architecture critic has slammed the new design for the Atlantic Yards arena and offered some (misplaced) nostalgia for the forsaken Frank Gehry plan. Still, James S. Russell, the critic for Bloomberg, grasps a fundamental issue that has eluded too many observers: "[Developer Bruce] Ratner won’t keep any promises that prove inconvenient." article
"The performance ['Ballets Russes Italian Style (The Shortest Musical You Will Never See Again'] featured Lady Gaga, who played her song 'Speechless' on a rotating pink Steinway grand piano, with butterflies painted by Damien Hirst, all the while flanked by...
CTV.ca Toronto The AGO is banking on this exhibit to boost attendance which has been dwindling since it reopened last November after a year-long shut down due to a $276 million renovation. Despite that renovation receiving critical acclaim and being designed by celebrity architect Frank Gehry, the gallery has seen only 700,000 people in the year since it opened, versus the usual one million annual...
ANSA) - Rome, November 20 - The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy’s art exhibitions: BRESCIA - Museo di Santa Giulia: Inca, Origins and Mysteries of the Civilisation of Gold; 250 artefacts, December 4-June 27. CATANIA - Palazzo Valle: Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana; until March 14. FERRARA - Palazzo dei Diamanti: Boldini In [...]
For quite a long time "new" and "modern" were values in and of themselves. Nevertheless many voices did not agree at all with that, especially as regards "modern architecture." Prince Charles among many others accused modern architecture of being "all stumps and carbuncles." And it's quite true that the market value of many modern architecture houses is low as...
The Brooklyn Paper By Michael P. Ventura This article includes a thumbnail history of the proposed Atlantic Yards project and a question as to whether the project (or even just the proposed Nets arena) will ever be built. In 2003, Ratner finally unveiled his plan for Atlantic Yards — a 16-skyscraper residential, hotel, office and commercial complex with a basketball arena at the core. His goal...
The proposed Atlantic Yards project cast a pall over the celebration between the starchitect who was canned from the project and developer Bruce Ratner during the topping-off ceremony for the Beekman Tower. The New York Observer - Gehry Gets Topped Out in Lower Manhattan By Eliot Brown Developer Bruce Ratner (left) took some time away Thursday from fretting over his planned Atlantic Yards project...
Tiffany & Co. operates an approximately 1,600-square-foot boutique in the Entetsu department store, located at 320-2 Sunayama-cho, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, a major city on Honshu Island. The boutique’s exterior combines granite and marble with a modern, varicolored glass Tiffany jewellery jewellery and stainless steel details that reflect the Art Deco-inspired façade of Tiffany’s...
What is the rock star world coming to? Rod Stewart is being sued by his own lawyers. So who’s going to defend him? The law firm of Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro filed the case in Los Angeles. The firm has other celebrity clients including famed architect Frank Gehry and television host [...]
The picture that shows you what makes Bilbao tick cannot be found in the Guggenheim. For all its undeniable magnificence, the Frank Gehry-designed gallery that rises sleekly beside the Nervió*River does not contain the famous photo of the celebrations after Athletic Club, the city's football team, won the Spanish league and cup double in 1984 (without the help of the hand of God). To find that,...
Yesterday, Bruce Ratner and Frank Gehry got together down on Beekman Street to celebrate the topping out of the Santa Monica architect’s one Ratner project that did get off the ground. The inimitable Eliot Brown stopped by to snap some pictures and discuss the condo tower with Gehry—Brown’s sorta right about that unveiling, as [...]
[pic BKRW ] You want fashion and architecture? I'll give you some. Hell, I'll even throw in a pop star and a dose of avant-garde art, while we're at it. So, here's Lady Gag a debuting her new ballad at the MOCA's 30th anniversary party, wearing a hat designed by Frank Gehry and a dress by Prada, while playing on a Steinway grand piano painted pink with blue butterflies by Damien Hirst . [pic Nicola...
At a topping-off ceremony for his Beekman Tower yesterday, 80-year old architect Frank Gehry took to the podium and made one of those slightly randy jokes that men can get away with when they're 80. Mr. Gehry pointed his finger upright toward the 76-tower residential complex and bluntly proclaimed: "No Viagra." Mr. Gehry said he will wait awhile to see the view from what will eventually...
Developer Bruce Ratner (left) took some time away Thursday from to host a topping out soirée for his Frank Gehry-designed Beekman apartment tower, capping the vertical rise of what is to be the tallest residential building in the city.
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