Word: modernizing
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...subject was personal for Yenawine, who worked as director of education at the Museum of Modern Art from 1983 to 1993—during the height of the AIDS epidemic...
...Thompson says. The effort to collect pieces for a possible long-term D/R retrospective exhibit snowballed. Thompson and company scoured Cambridge-area antique stores and their own homes for old cookware, vases, or furnishings originally sold by D/R almost 50 years ago. Marimekko donated some of its modern merchandise to the exhibit, and a photographer took portraits of people wearing original D/R clothing to hang alongside the furnishings. One former D/R employee even donated her Marimekko wedding gown and bridesmaid dress...
Though the piece is pretty funny and probably successful in exploring the overlap of simulation and reality in a modern world, it's reminiscent of last year’s University of Chicago Application essay question about the “Powers of 10." And FlyBy already suffered through that...
...nouveau swags on the façade of Art Hotel Boston, which despite its name is not in Massachusetts but in Turin, give no hint of the modern-art bonanza within. Guests check in beneath a poetic fusion of paint, cement and metal by Torinese artist Marco Gastini. A triptych by Roy Lichtenstein and a watercolor by Lucio Fontana hang in the bar. But it's the plethora of paintings, photographs and sculptures by lesser-known Italian talents - Luigi Ontani, Carla Accardi, Nicola Bolla - that suggest this is a private passion made public...
...among rolling hills and olive groves once painted by Van Gogh, Domaine de Lauzières appears to be your quintessential Provençal vineyard - until you step into a peculiar cellar. There are no barrels to be seen, nor any of the stainless-steel tanks favored by some modern vintners. Instead, winemaker Jean-Daniel Schlaepfer ferments his high-end wines there in egg-shaped vessels based on amphorae - the clay jars used by the Romans centuries ago. Schlaepfer is part of a growing group of producers around France and beyond returning to the wisdom of the ancients in order...