Word: modernist
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Sensitively planned by the architects Leers Weinzapfel—who tend to be quite modernist in their leanings—the 119-year-old building’s façade and vestibule were restored while the theatre itself underwent a drastic modernization. Looking back on the old—the walls are adorned with old playbills and posters advertising events from generations past—the Theatre nevertheless manages to shoehorn in a 270-seat theater with a new sound system, motorized lights, and a stage thrust that also serves as a scenery elevator or a orchestra pit, depending...
...leading interior designers, to develop a strategy to give 6,000-odd outlets across Europe a face-lift. Avanzi and McDonald's, in turn, engaged the services of one of the world's most highly regarded furniture producers, Fritz Hansen of Denmark, to supply chairs designed by legendary Danish Modernist Arne Jacobsen. McDonald's has called its high-profile strategy to bring upmarket style to the world's most ubiquitous restaurant the Less Is More campaign. But there may be even less than it bargained for, considering Fritz Hansen abruptly suspended the partnership on Monday, accusing McDonald's of supplementing...
...phenomenon, but local residents also have time off, and therefore the leisure to visit museums. The ones I visited this summer seemed well prepared to cater to this special audience. In Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie—housed in Mies van der Rohe’s great modernist shell—gutted its permanent collection and put up a massively advertised show of French impressionist and post-impressionist art from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Tickets were expensive and lines were long, but Berliners flocked to the exhibit. Everyone seems to love 19th-century French painting...
...other viewers, Antonioni - who had come to directing after being a film critic, an assistant director, a screenwriter (he scripted Federico Fellini's solo feature directorial debut, The White Sheik) and the maker of documentary shorts - was the first true modernist in commercial cinema. His pristine imagery and elegant compositions taught viewers to watch a movie, not just see it. Calling L'Avventura "easily, the film of the year," critic Pauline Kael hailed it for demonstrating "that the possibilities for serious, cultivated, personal film expression in the film medium were not yet exhausted." (The next year, she castigated La Notte...
...theater but to painting. The combination of these innovations, or affronts, made L'Avventura a precedent-setting movie. So did the fierce debate surrounding it. Indeed, you could say that at that Cannes festival - as the professionals loved or hated, puzzled and argued over this beautiful, forbidding artifact - modernist cinema was born...