Word: rotundas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well stated by a man who hated the very idea of giving up anything to the opposition. Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole wants Reagan to come up to the Hill and meet with the bipartisan leaders in the Rotunda and there, in those streaks of sunlight that flood the old stone floor, strike a mutual doctrine on debt and spending and trade. In the shadows of the Speaker's Lobby last week, a Republican leader cocked his eye toward the House floor, teeming with old and new members in their first session, and said, "Ronald Reagan is still more popular...
...museums, the rotunda used to be where the sculpture went--bulls and Greeks, and the Hiram Powers slave chastely displaying her fetters to the white copy of the Apollo Belvedere. The Brooklyn Museum, scorning such conventions, has turned its rotunda into a boat show. It is full of small craft of every kind, antic parodies and phantoms of seaside fun, not one of which will float. There is a dory made of concrete and a small runabout, or rather the Platonic ghost of one, made of glass reinforced with wire mesh; a sailing dinghy made of sheet copper...
Such is the opening to Jennifer Bartlett's mid-career retrospective--the rotunda installation is her most recent work, Sea Wall, 1985--and it sets the tone of expectation very well. The large, the environmental and the obscurely systematized are here conflated with the small, the decorative and the pleasurable. It is as though the didactic strategies of conceptual art, its obsession with ordering and naming and listing, had been given play among the stereotypes of joie de vivre fixed a half-century or more ago by Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy. At 44, Bartlett is almost the quintessential example...
...sneaky as a PAC, as enduring as Claude Pepper, as annoying as an overzealous lobbyist, the unelected American cockroach is surely the most resilient resident of Capitol Hill. From the Rotunda to the farthest hearing room, congressional buildings are overrun with the scurrying pests, which seem harder to stamp out than waste, fraud and abuse. Efforts to exterminate them have failed miserably, so Congressman Silvio Conte has declared a war against what he says is a "1 trillion-strong" invasion of the hallowed halls. The irrepressible Massachusetts Republican has launched a "Conte Crush-a- Cockroach Campaign," the slogan of which...
...failure to blend with its neighbors, especially the colonnaded City/County Building, built in 1911, and the Richard J. Daley Center, a Miesian steel high-rise completed in 1965. They also charge that it is too frivolous for a government office. Although its inverted-bowl silhouette evokes the traditional rotunda, Jahn has transcended the two styles that dress most government structures: neoclassicism, with its air of judicious civic doings, and modernism, with its sober grids that speak of rectitude and rationality...