Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Jorn Utzon, an architect who designed one of the world's most recognizable buildings -- the Sydney Opera House -- but never saw it finished, died in Copenhagen on Saturday. He was 90.
[daily dose of imagery] (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
New gallery space in the Art Gallery of Ontario. The furniture is also designed by Frank Gehry....
Rocketboom (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Joanne takes at look at Wavefunction and Less Than Three, two interactive sculptures by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at the Bitforms Gallery in New York City. Music by Podington Bear. Related posts: Frank Gehry’s Art Gallery of Ontario Ellie Rountree visits the redesigned Art Gallery of Ontario in... The Most Damaging Wound by Blair Singer Joanne interviews Blair Singer, writer of the play 'The Most... One...
ArtsBeat (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
A little affirmation of the artistic profile of the 716 (as if, after this weekend's massive celebration at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, we really needed it) comes from this photo caption on the Toronto blog A Walk On Earth:...
Rocketboom (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Ellie Rountree visits the redesigned Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada. Related posts: Google Earth Art Hacks and Microminiature Art Huge tribute to Lenin visible on Google Earth, Marshal Mcluhan,... Richard Garriot takes Steve Brudniak’s Art into Space Interview with Austin artist, Steve Brudniak and his latest art... The Instant Art Grant Program The Instant Grant Program by The Federation...
Fantastic Toe » Shoe Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Monday, November 24…Christian Louboutin, Tory Burch, and others offer myriad interpretations of the classic loafer…Trend Hunter brings us a gallery of Jimmy Choo’s exquisite resort line…”Everyone got it wrong about shoes,” says buying director at Harvey Nichols about stumbling shoe sales - classic pieces that last more than one season are what consumers want to buy [...]
Nevin Kelly Gallery Blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
With an affinity for exotic metals and hardware, it is no surprise that Stirling Elmendorf is a fan of the architecture of Frank Gehry. “Temporary Constructions” features a series photographs Stirling took of the Gehry-designed Experience Music Project in Seattle, WA. Stirling Elmendorf, “Static Wave”, 2008, pigment print Appropriately, a pile of electric guitar parts inspired Gehry’s design for the...
Looking Around (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
We all know what will happen to construction in the Big Recession. There'll be a lot less of it. But what will happen to architecture? A few weeks ago the British architect David Chipperfield told an interviewer that he expected a prolonged recession would mean less flamboyant design, fewer buildings that rely on [...]
World Hum (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
We noted a couple weeks back that a U2-Norman Foster project in Dublin has been put on hold thanks to the economic crisis. Now, a Frank Gehry development in the UK has gotten the axe as well. “If Gehry can be tossed aside by recession-wary banks,” Jonathan Glancey asks in the Guardian , “what about less celebrated architects'” Glancey’s thoughtful essay speculates about the future of the architecture...
Voices en Español (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
OK, I’ll admit it…that title wasn’t the original one for this entry. I was in the mood to write a snarky post about Spain, and I even had the piece halfway done when I decided to turn that frown upside down and use some reverse psychology on myself. Positive thinking and all that. So here [...]
Mean Ol' Meany (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
The fact that certain people are employed shocks me daily. Morons eat their own. Yes, Frank Gehry is a moron. And yes, someone who hires a moron, knowing that the person is a moron, IS a moron. Please take the time to comment.
[daily dose of imagery] (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Frank Gehry also designed the new furniture in the transformed Art Gallery of Ontario....
ImmigrationProf Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
The architect Frank Gehry, born in Toronto, is our Immigrant of the Day. He is a now a dual US-Canada citizen. Frank Owen Gehry CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los...
baithak (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
A recent judgment by Israel's supreme court will allow the construction of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Museum of Tolerance, designed by renowned US architect Frank Gehry, over a Muslim heritage cemetery of great historical importance in the centre of Jerusalem. It is a blow to peaceful coexistence in an already divided city. This project, started in 2006, had been frozen due to public outcry and...
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
For Frank Gehry – the man who reinvented the Art Gallery of Ontario – what matters most about this week’s grand reopening is feeling the late Ken Thomson would have approved. “It sounds terribly romantic,” the 79-year-old architect said yesterday in an exclusive phone interview with the Star, “but I had a strong feeling as David [...]
