Modernist homes, because the architects who taught at Harvard built houses for themselves and their friends here. New Canaan is naturally mainly associated with the Glass House. And many of the other masterpieces are the work of Philip Johnson and the Harvard Five. In the 1940s, a group of ...
Paul Goldberger tracks the evolution of Mitchell and Emily Rales’s Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland. Set amid 230 acres of pristine landscape and housing a world-class collection of modern and contemporary art, this graceful complex of pavilions, designed by architects Thomas Phifer and Partner...
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the greatest architects in history, and he’d tell you so, himself. The man in the cape and porkpie hat had an ego as big as any of his buildings, but as they say, if it’s true, it ain’t bragging. It is so tempting to dismiss Wright. He was...
Lyall, one of the architects of 19th Century British policy, thought Afghans “wretched”, “treacherous barbarians with whom it was an unfortunate necessity to have any dealings at all”…“I can only sympathise with the Afghan’s love for his country and his hatred against those who disturb...
The film opens with a starkly gloomy night scene, Quincy Jone’s slick score leading us into the scene, as a Greyhound bus heads toward the camera. Inside, Robert Blake dark and brooding is sitting with his guitar.Conrad L Halllights Perry’s intense face with the strike of a match he...
This starsBette Daviswho plays Mrs. Elliot.Ted Bessellplays her son Jeffrey Elliot a sculptor who hires young women to take care of his elderly mother and his insane sister who both live in the family mansion with him. Also starsSian Barbara Allen. What can I say? I loveBette Davisin ...
Johnson City retired Orthodontist John Bradshaw (L) and Kingsport Pediatrician Joe Ley, both active Rotarians, toured the Wise health fair with then Rotary District Governor-Elect Dick Ray and were amazed at the scale and efficiency of the RAM event – treating 1,000 patients with comprehensive ...
She is also founder of boutique consulting firm Chief Social Architects. WELCOME TO THE WORLD -- TOBY CHAUDHURI, former VP at PBS and adviser to Obama and Clinton White House initiatives, and RUBY ROY,...
I can’t help wondering whatSpike Lee—who was originally interested in making a movie about the Selma march—might have done with the subject. Or better yet,Quentin Tarantino. Maybe Tarantino would have castJohn Travoltaas Lyndon Johnson,Samuel L. Jacksonas Martin Luther King, andChristoph Walt...
Word. I google “twitchy.com” and the first thing that appears: Alyssa Milano alerts candidates to her 2020 plan (“the Jon Ossoff blessing” hangs in the balance). I’m not sure what that means. But that’s okay. It sounds like birdtalk.com.SNL.org.PBR.can. ...