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...The Nordics have inhabited their exquisitely beautiful Modernist pavilion (by Sverre Fehn from 1962) with a colourful and aromatic array of nomadic artefacts of the Sámi people, from reindeer skins to woodwork...
...Thornton’s response is that collaborative design helps to develop soft skills through workshops held in schools, museums or architectural practices....
...In the daytime it sparkles like the sea, picking up hints of blue and gold; at twilight it turns pinkish; and, when the sun is almost set, it darkens into blue, indigo and then almost black, a silhouette...
...Smart reads House of cards The Sydney installation of the billionaire businessman James Packer’s Crown Resorts empire was meant to be an oasis for Asian high-rollers....
...She casts these 10cm square beeswax tiles in silicon moulds but their leaves and curlicues appear hand carved, like the decorative woodwork in 17th-century churches....
...Second, painting since 1960 has tended towards the immersive, sculptural and architectural, and that demands new forms of display....
...The downtown area of Los Angeles used to be a dangerous, no-go area after dark but a recent gala anniversary concert there featuring the cellist YoYo Ma and installations by the video artist Netia Jones...
...“But all the original mouldings, rose-oak woodwork, even pieces of folk sculpture are there.”...
...she storms, as the Berlin sky above us dramatically darkens, as if to her prompting. “You watch it differently, you handle it differently, you experience it differently.” Dean is no Luddite though....
...Warhol’s six images in “Statue of Liberty” (1986) progressively darken, the shadows finally obscuring the message “liberty enlightening the world” as if predicting the Bush years....
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