“We hope. We despair. We hope. We despair. That is what governs us. We have a bipolar system. Armed with this knowledge, and (see above), I visit our nation’s capital and the capital building.”
Maria Kalman | E pluribus unum
Max Roach w/Abby Lincoln / Freedom Day, Belgian TV 1964
Cesária Évora / Sodade (live at L’Olympia)
Space Shuttle Atlantis’ payload bay, vertical stabilizer, orbital maneuvering system pods and docking mechanism
Artist Jean-Claude dies at 74
She met her partner Christo in Paris in 1958. They have been collaborating for 51 years.
The family statement said Christo was deeply saddened by his wife’s death but was “committed to honor the promise they made to each other many years ago: that the art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude would continue.” That includes completing their current installation, “Over The River”, a series of fabric panels to be suspended over the Arkansas River in Colorado, and “The Mastaba,” a stack of 410,000 oil barrels configured as a mastaba, or rectangle with outward-sloping sides, envisioned for the United Arab Emirates.
Like all their projects, these are intended to be temporary, a quality at the heart of the artistic enterprise. Whether executed in oil drum or brightly colored fabric, the art of her and her husband, Jeanne-Claude said, expressed “ the quality of love and tenderness that we human beings have for what does not last.”
Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes have reached new heights: as tree houses for the rich and famous. This one belongs to Doors guitarist Robby Kreiger, by arboreal architect Dustin Feider.
“Whatever happens, I don’t want to lose you as my friend.”
“I promise, I will never be your friend, no matter what. Ever.”
