Today is my birthday, so I’m taking the day off
The Price Tower Arts Center has named a new executive director (Richard Townsend stepped down in late 2006 and the position has been held since on an interim basis by Laura Riley). Timothy L. Boruff will begin his new job in May.
Tim has most recently been a non-profit consultant with his own firm, Boruff Consulting […]
November 30, 2007 – 2:12 pm
Holiday tour in Michigan is NOT NOT NOT a Wright house, but a Wright-inspired one. Sorry, I’ll smack myself for you.
Platt and Pratt — you’d think that fancy liberal arts education would have taught me to actually READ.
October 28, 2007 – 10:08 am
Included in The Guardian’s recent survey of Great Modern Buildings is the Phaeno Science Center designed by Zaha Hadid. Hadid has been chosen to design the proposed expansion to the Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
About the Phaeno Science Center, critic Alice Rawsthorn wrote
Hadid herself has described the Phaeno as a favourite […]
October 9, 2007 – 7:04 pm
The Fall issues of the Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly just arrived — and it is glorious. Do not let your spouse get it before you do.
The issue is all about Taliesin — and it is the next best thing to a tour (a distant next best thing, admittedly) and full of phenomenal photos, including […]
October 5, 2007 – 4:38 pm
In Seacost Online, we find a legitimate review of Frank Lloyd Wright and the House Beautiful.
There is a lot here that I would argue with, but not this:
It is Wright’s vision and aesthetic of these interior accoutrements that are the focus of this stunning exhibition.
I believe the technical journalism term for that is “review”.
October 5, 2007 – 4:30 pm
Some weeks ago, I held up to ridicule a silly and ignorant review of the “Frank lloyd Wright and the House Beautiful” That article has now reappeared on the website for The Providence Journal. I would not mention it again, except I saw new jackassery that I missed the first time. (Also, I enjoy picking […]
September 28, 2007 – 6:23 pm
There are still spots open on the Alden B. Dow Ultimate Walking Tours the week-end of October 5-7. I thought Lisa and I missed our chance, but organizers opened new tours, and there is still room on tours Saturday and Sunday. If you haven’t visited before, you should book both the Walking Tour and the […]
August 23, 2007 – 5:54 am
Today is Gabe’s first day of school. At 7:50AM he’ll be hurled face-first into the maw of Catholic education. Since I believe that school exists to destroy to whimsy and imagination of children, I’m not very happy. Also, as a Congregationalist (cranky Dutch Calvinists, with a deep, abiding distrust of hierarchies), all the pictures of […]