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Massimiliano Gioni  reveals the economics of curating the exhibition Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopaedic Palace) for the Venice Biennale

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When Te Papa opens its Andy Warhol exhibition in June watch for its rules about whether or not visitors can take photographs. Of all the artists in the world Warhol must surely be the one who would have least objection to people copying his images seeing as how so many of them were copied in the first place. OK, we're being ingenuous. We've just visited a Warhol exhibition (in the Pittsburgh Museum which will supply the work for the Te Papa exhibition) and they absolutely forbid photography. A small army of student guards has been enlisted and they follow you round like lost puppies carefully positioning themselves to cover all works at all times. This seems particularly pointless given the integration of the phone camera into everyday life. When we visited there were a number of people (ourselves included) taking sneak pics whenever they could. We like to think we were all encouraged by one of the wall texts in the exhibition: “Warhol’s spirit of radical innovation and the notion of the artist as a savvy consumer of images have been an ongoing source of inspiration for subsequent generations of artist.” They may just have well added "and everyone else in the digital era."

Image: a photo we took at the Andy Warhol Museum showing Warhol’s 1964 paintings of Jackie Kennedy. The imagery for the painting came via a newspaper photograph that was converted into silk screens to create this serial portrait.

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Frieze … it’s Fiona. The Frieze Art Fair is one of the two or three top fairs and it's held annually both in London and in New York. Today many dealer galleries make a significant part of their turnover from these fairs so competition to be included is fierce. In addition to the usual booths, talks and related exhibitions this year’s Frieze in New York also promises an outdoor sculpture park featuring major works by artists like Franz West (Gagosian Gallery), Paul McCarthy (Hauser & Wirth), Pae White (Andrew Kreps) and Fiona Connor (Hopkinson Cundy). Tom Eccles, who was previously Director of the New York City Public Art Fund, made the selection of 12 sculptors. Fiona Connor's contribution will be following on from her exhibition in Auckland where she installed a number of works in a field and duplicated them in the gallery. We’ll post photos of what she's come up with when we visit the fair in a couple of weeks.

Images: Fiona Connor’s work photographed at night (don’t ask) in a field somewhere in Mangere from the exhibition Mount Gabriel, Ruby and Ash

Chicago's Picasso, 10 Most Endangered, Year End Shows at UIC, IIT, Shanghai Tower - it's the May Calendar!

It's that whole flowers-after-the rain thing.  Even with things shutting down for the Memorial Day weekend, there's still over 40 items on the May Calendar of Chicago Architectural events.

It begins on Wednesday the 1st at the Art Institute, with a panel on Building Public Art and Public Spaces: The Chicago Picasso and its Legacy, featuring Stephanie D'Alessandro, Julie Burros, Fred C.T. Lo, Richard F. Tomlinson, Mark Sexton, Dan Peterman and curator Alison Fisher as moderator.

Preserving the Past/Making it New is this month's theme for the lunchtime lectures at CAF, with Preservation Chicago's Jonathan Fine talking about this year's Seven Most Threatened Buildings on the 1st, Susan Rabe on Milwaukee's St. Josaphat on the 8th, Landmarks Illinois' Lisa DiChiera discussing their 2013 list of Ten Most Endangered Historic Places, set to be unveiled this Tuesday,  Zurich Esposito talking about AIA/Chicago's Small Firm/Small Project Award winners on the 22nd, and Hume An and Jeff Bone discussing the rehab of the landmark Viceroy Hotel into the Harvest Common Apartments.

Also at the Art Institute, Jodi Magness lectures on Ancient Synagogues in the Land of Israel on Saturday, the 4th, while on the 9th there's a lecturer tour of the institution's own Art and Architecture from 1893 to today.

AIA/Chicago is offering a tour of SCB's Klarchek Information Commons at Loyola on Tuesday, the 7th, the same day SEAOI's May dinner meeting will hear presentations from the finalists for its annual Excellence in Structural Engineer Awards.

Christopher Kopp discusses Bus Rapid Transit in Curitiba, Brazil on Thursday, the 9th, the same day that at AIA/Chicago, ZPD+A's James Damato and David Keller of the Camp Douglas Restoration Foundation will discuss efforts to create a memorial on the South Side site where thousands of Confederate prisoners died during the Civil War, and David Hartt and Karthik Pandian are in conversation with Hamza Walker at the Graham.

I'm afraid we missed the opening the SAIC student show in April, but the UIC School of Architecture opens its Year End Show on Saturday the 4th, and IIT College of Architecture has its Open House and Annual Exhibition of Student Work on Thursday, the 10th.

On Wednesday, the 15th, Carl Smith discusses his new book City Water, City Life at the Newberry, while film-title designer Karin Fong of Imaginary Forces is at Fullerton Hall for the Architecture and Design Society of the Art Institute.  This month's Landmarks Illinois Preservation Snapshots lecture, Thursday the 16th at the Cultural Center, features Nick Kalogeresis, Jean Guarino and Douglas E. Gilbert talking about The Architecture of River Forest at lunchtime, while in the evening at the Driehaus, Dr. Susan R. Braden discusses The Architecture of Leisure: The Florida Coast Resorts of Henry Flagler and Henry Plant.

And on Wednesday the 22nd, CTBUH is sponsoring a panel at CAF  on the Shanghai Tower, with Dennis Poon, Grant Uhlir and Christian Vol Holten.

I'm sure I'm leaving off stuff I'll be adding later, but even now, we've got over 40 great items, so check out all the details onThe May Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.

 

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s house Fallingwater has been photographed every which way. No wonder. It's hard to believe that Wright designed it when he was 67 and that it reignited his career with over 400 more projects, one of them the Guggenheim Museum.  Fallingwater was almost immediately recognised as one of the great buildings of the twentieth century; an appearance on the cover of Time magazine in 1937 sealed the deal. First there is the anticipation as you walk through wooded parkland towards this house that is so familiar through photographs. And second there is the experience of being actually inside something you know so much better from images of its exterior. Unexpectedly we were allowed to photograph inside (a recent change no doubt brought on by phone cameras) so we decided to concentrate on details of the texture and finish that make up the personality of Fallingwater. Some of them you can see here and others are on OTN Stuff.

Images: Details of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and bottom (we couldn’t help ourselves) the money shot.

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Even as architects as diverse as Jeanne Gang and Zaha Hadid emerge us fully-empowered practitioners in the world of design, the barefoot and back-room status of female collaborators to famous alpha males stubbornly lingers.  

Last year, when architect Anne Tyng died, we wrote about how her collaboration with Louis Kahn on such early and innovative projects as the 1950's Philadelphia City Tower was deliberately effaced so as to humor the prejudices of the day and build up the brand.

Go back another half century, and you have the story of Marion Mahony, the woman whose striking renderings helped establish the reputation of Frank Lloyd Wright and with the conceptional drawings she created for her husband Walter Burley Griffin's clinched victory for their entry into an architectural competition for the design of Canberra, Australia's capital city.  But that's a story on its own, and we'll return to it next next.

More recently, two Harvard design students, Caroline James and Arielle Assouline-Lichten, have mounted a high profile petition drive to rectify the fact that Denise Scott Brown was left off the 1991 Pritzker Prize awarded to her personal and professional collaborator of 50 years, Robert Venturi.  As of yesterday, the petition has over 11,000 signatures from 88 countries, with a wide range of architects including Renzo Piano, Richard Meier, Herzog and deMeuron, Jeanne Gang, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Rafael Moneo.  (Bob Stern won't sign because he objects to the world “demand’, although he says he supports the general idea.)  Martha Thorne, executive director of Pritzker Prize, has pledged that the committee will take up the issue at their next session.  (If you're in Philadelphia this Sunday the 28th, you can hear Denise Scott Brown in conversation with William Menking.)

Which reminded us of the story we wrote on Robert Venturi's appearance at Crown Hall back in 2005.  At the end of the event both Venturi and Scott Brown were very gracious with their time in talking with students and signing copies of their books, but only Venturi spoke, giving an engaging talk on the different perspectives that he and Mies van der Rohe brought to architecture.

That, of course, was a very long time ago, but you still have to wonder whether we'll still be going through the same thing a few decades from now.  When Wang Shu won the Pritzker Prize in 2012, his wife and collaborator, architect Lu Wenyu, was not cited, although she co-founded their firm, Amateur Architecture Studio, and is reported to work in close partnership with her husband.  In Chicago appearances earlier this year, there seemed to be little interest in bringing Lu Wenyu into the discussions and her role appeared to be confined to unofficial photographer.

READ:
The Architects behind the Architects: Anne Tyng dies at 91
Marion Mahony: Frank Lloyd Wright's Right-Handed Woman
Bobbing for Mies - Robert Venturi at IIT

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The Ring comes to South Kensington - from Ades to Zappa: death by great music at the 2013 London Proms

Attention grant makers:  Lynn Becker is pleased to announce he will be available to set up residency in London from July to September this year to create an introductory on-line overview of classical music through the hundreds of concerts of the 2013 BBC Proms, plus a new blog on London, architecture and urbanism.  Serious inquiries only.

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There's no shortage of fine things in Chicago this summer, at both Ravinia  (Little Match Girl Passion, Rachmaninoff Vespers, Britten's Burning Fiery Furnace, John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary) and the Grant Park Music Festival (new works by Norman and Chen, Alexander Nevsky, the Bruckner 2nd, Adams' Harmonium, the Britten War Requiem and Pink Martini), but there's nothing quite like the London Proms, founded in 1895 by Sir Henry Wood, the La Grand Bouffe of summer festivals.

 From July 12th through September 7th, hundreds of concerts will take place in multiple venues.  The core 92 concerts are in the 5,500 person-capacity Royal Albert Hall, where 1,400 standing room tickets are sold (at £5 !) on the day of each event.  This year, you have to bet the lines will often be huge, as The Proms are celebrating not only the centenary of Benjamin Britten, but also the bi-centenary of Richard Wagner, to be marked by a performance of the complete Ring conducted by Daniel Barenboim, with a cast including Bryn Terfel and Nina Stimme.  But why stop there?  There's also a Tristan from Semyon Bychov, a Tannhäuser under Mark Elder, and a Parsifal conducted by Mark Elder.  There are actually as many full-length Wagner Operas being performed at the Proms as there are at Bayreuth this year, with both locales sharing a single Siegfried, Lance Ryan.

The War Requiem, of course, is also part of the Proms retrospective, but there's also an exhaustive overview of Britten's complete works, including the Glyndebourne production of Billy Budd. Arvo Pärt's moving  Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten will also be performed.

Like any summer festival, there's a heavy rotation of the old reliable warhorses from Brahms to Tchaikovsky, but along with them is a truly astonishing breadth of music, with the local premiere of 13 works, and 18 world premieres, including both Thomas Ades Totentanz, and Frederic Rzewski's  Piano Concerto.

 Another program is devoted Stockahausen, and there are works by Gubaidulina, Pintscher, Górecki,  Penderecki, Frank Zappa's The Adventures of Greggery Peccary and Philip Glass's 10th Symphony.  There's even a period instrument (?!) performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, to observe the centenary of its slightly indecorous debut at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

Soloists? Uchida, Kennedy, Alison Balsom, Barry Douglas, Trifonov, Hough, Bostridge, Batiashvili, Antonacci, Midori, Jansen, Calleja, Cooper, Lewis, Bryan Ferry,  Lortie, Repin, and Serkin.

And the orchestras!  The Bavarian Radio Symphony, Palestine Strings , English Baroque Soloists, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, London Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Philharmonia Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic , Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Hallé.

More conductors: Noseda, Knusson, Jansons, Gardner, Gergiev, Dutoit, Davis,   Nézet-Séguin, Salonen, Jurowski, Petrenko, Vänskä, Xian Zhang, Maazel , Harding, Nott, Pappano and Wit.  The August 20th concert, with Ian Bostridge performing Britten's Les Illuminations, that was to be conducted by Colin Davis will now become a memorial for the great conductor.  For the first time in the Proms' history, a female conductor, Marin Alsop, will lead the Last Night of the Proms, this year featuring Joyce DiDonata.

Alsop also conducts the Brahms German Requiem with the Orchestra of the Enlightenment on August 17.

I know. And the best part?  Every concert is streamed live, and remains available for seven days after the event.   Get all the details on the Proms 2013 website.

Me, my offer still holds: send me to London and the Proms, July through September, and you'll get at least two great postings a day, on both the music and city.

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