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Denied the option of spreading his architectural imagination thin, Hollein has instead produced dense, intense buildings where every detail is fussed over and elaborately wrought. For one American admirer, Architect Michael Graves, the pleasure of a Hollein building comes from "the personal attention he gives his work. You truly sense the artist's hand controlling every detail." In fact, Hollein is also a gallery artist, but he finds praise like Graves' somewhat backhanded. "Exquisite craftsmanship and careful detailing are what an architect ought to be expected to deliver," Hollein says. "I don't think you should be applauded...
Discovery of the finely wrought objects was kept under wraps, awaiting the beginning of the 20th anniversary celebration of Jerusalem's Israel Museum, which last week placed them on display. They include the oldest cloth fragments and painted mask ever found: a life-size limestone human face decorated with bands of red and green. Also dug from the cave: basket and box fragments made of woven rushes waterproofed with asphalt, delicate thumbnail- size human heads and a rodent figurine, carved wood and bone tools, clay, stone and wooden beads and a human skull adorned with asphalt. Perhaps most remarkable...
They are trying with all the heart and skill that wrought an Olympics here in the first place. When the International Olympic Committee awarded the Games to Sarajevo in 1978, the town had a third-rate mountain with a few lifts for recreational skiers and no ice rink at all. They built two rinks and a bobsled run. They also cut a road up a mountain previously traversed only by Tito's Nazi-fighting partisans, and they built hotels, cross-country ski trails and a network of chair lifts to newly hacked-out downhill and slalom courses. They...
Though purists may sigh at this bow to the mass audience, A&E is starting to make its mark with some notable program events. Last fall it offered the U.S. premiere of John Schlesinger's An Englishman Abroad, an affectionately wrought drama based on Actress Coral Browne's chance encounter with Soviet Spy Guy Burgess (played with world-weary charm by Alan Bates). In January A&E telecast the first modern public performance of Mozart's "lost" Symphony in A Minor, with Tom Hulce (an Oscar nominee for Amadeus) serving as an agreeable host...
...this does not ring true somehow. Unlike the industrial adventurers of the 19th century, most people today are very much aware of the problems, economic and spiritual, wrought by dead-eyed materialism. Arnold's criticism of his times would not be a bit shocking in ours; such criticism has been along on the march of progress for quite a while--even if it often sounds like short- order disapproval, whipped up automatically for predictable occasions. The computer is born, the computer is pilloried. An oil rig goes up, conservationists marshal their forces. Nineteenth century minds may have planted the seeds...