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Published 19-Aug-10
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Published 19-Aug-10
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Gerold Tagwerkerurban studies-Toronto#1, 2000Black and white print on chipboard, 84.6 x 49.2 in.Courtesy of Galerie Grita Insam, ViennaAustrian Cultural Forum New York
May 27 – Sep 5, 2010
This exhibition examines the evolution of imagery and language in what has been described as our panoptic era. While its roots are grounded in the concepts that arose from the 1948 novel by George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which clearly reflected the historical background of totalitarianism, this show ...
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Published 24-May-10
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02.04.10-05.15.10 Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, review written by Joanna Fiduccia ...
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Published 28-Mar-10
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Two of the biggest stories in the architecture world over the last couple of weeks have been the competition for a new American embassy in London, won by the Philadelphia firm KieranTimberlake, and the death in an L.A. traffic accident of the Austrian-born, New York-based architect Raimund Abraham.In a piece for Sunday's Arts & Books section, I explore connections between the embassy project and Abraham's best-known building, the powerful Austrian Cultural Forum, a design dedicated ...
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Published 20-Mar-10
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Southern Californian Institute of Architecture has announced the death of architect Raimund J. Abraham. Abraham died in a car accident in Los Angeles on 11 March. The Austrian is famed for his design of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, a commission he beat 200 other entries to receive in 1998. Architectural historian, Kenneth Crampton, called it "the most significant modern piece of architecture to be realized in Manhattan since the Seagram Building and the Guggenheim Musuem of 1959.” SC...
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Published 15-Mar-10
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The Academy Award-nominated film "The Hurt Locker" has been lauded for its portrayal of the war in Iraq, but some veterans say it paints an unfair picture of life on the ground for troops. Jeffrey Brown talked to Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday and Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, about the controversy on Thursday's PBS NewsHour:
We'll have more about the Oscars on Friday's NewsHour as well as a conversation with film critic and historia...
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Published 05-Mar-10
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Austrian architect Raimund Abraham, best known in this country for his knife-thin 2002 Austrian Cultural Forum building in Manhattan, was killed in a car crash in downtown Los Angeles early Thursday morning, according to a report from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).
Abraham was a visiting faculty member this term at SCI-Arc and delivered a lecture at the school Wednesday night.
SCI-Arc director Eric Owen Moss issued the following statement: "Earlier in the even...
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Published 04-Mar-10
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