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The Harry Ransom Center is now home to the archive of Award-winning choreographer Deborah Hay. A founding member of the Judson Dance Theater, Hay is recognized as a pivotal figure in the development of post-modern dance.
The archive constitutes more than 60 boxes of material spanning the full breadth of her life and career, including films, music, letters, diaries, photographs, production files, dance scores, interviews and manuscripts for her published books.
Read more about the life and work of legendary dancer and choreographer Deborah Hay: https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2021/10/13/choreographer-deborah-hays-archive-goes-to-the-harry-ransom-center/
: Deborah Hay in “Shaking Awake The Sleeping Child,” 1981. Photograph by Ken Fryer.
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Wright Auction “Memphis Design” lots online now at: https://www.wright20.com/auctions/2019/10/memphis-design-the-zanone-collection
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Wright Auction of early 80s made Memphis Design Oct. 3rd. https://www.wright20.com/auctions/2019/10/memphis-design-the-zanone-collection/info
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Blue phone is by Swatch, middle phone by Olivetti and phone at right is the Sottsass “Enorme” from’86.
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“Freemont” sideboard cabinet with shelves by Sottsass 1985. Plastic laminates, wood, gold gilt finish. 75"x24"x72"
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Memphis Uptown and Memphis Downtown, Condominium towers inspired by the Memphis Design group, Uptown (the first image) designed by The Gruzen Partnership and Abraham Rothenberg Associates architects, and Downtown (the second image) by Rothzeid Kaiserman Thomson and Bee and built in 1987.
Marketing images from the sales brochure packet in the Cooper-Hewitt’s permanent collection from 1985. Scans and information courtesy of Dennis Zanone.
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Cei House, Empoli, Italy (1991-93) designed by Italian architect & designer Ettore Sottsass
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by Miguel de Cervantes
What’s it about?
An old man in a small Spanish village reads too many tales of chivalry and imagines himself to be a knight. With his scraggy horse, Rozinante, his dumpy friend, Sancho Panza, and some ridiculous armour made from kitchen utensils, he casts himself as the hero of a story that exists only inside his head. He keeps interrupting the affairs of oblivious passers-by with his delusional gibberish, dedicating his non-existent mission to the permanently off-screen Dulcinea, often with violent threats. Therefore, many of the episodes end with various parts of his body being repeatedly kicked.
That sounds like a Three Stooges episode. Are you sure it’s a “classic”?
Yes. The book is written in two parts. The first part is 50% Three Stooges and 50% harsh literary criticism. It’s fun and sometimes very funny, but that’s not why it’s a classic. In the second half, he meets people who have already read the first half and deal with him based on that information.
They what? What?
The two parts of the book were published ten years apart, so Cervantes decided to set the second half in, for want of a better term, the real world. For the first time in history, a fictional character is aware of himself. This is the essence of postmodern, self-referential art and literature, which really took off in the 20th century. This book was written in 1615.
What should I say to make people think I’ve read it?
“Along with Tristram Shandy, this invented the concept of what we mean by the word ‘novel’.”
What should I avoid saying when trying to convince people I’ve read it?
“Is Don short for Donald or something else?”
Should I actually read it?
Yes, if you’re interested in reading something that was demonstrably 400 years ahead of its time. You can skip parts of the first section because it’s repetitive (and many modern translations do that for you), but if you’ve read Game of Thrones and you think the parts of Don Quixote were published too far apart, you should probably present yourself to the relevant authorities at first light.
Ricardo Bofill Leví (5 December 1939 – 14 January 2022)
Ricardo Bofill founded studio RBTA in 1963. Its best-known projects include Walden 7 and the brightly coloured La muralla Roja housing estate in Manzanera.
Other key projects from Bofill’s six-decade-long career include the Les Espaces d'Abraxas housing complex near Paris and, in Spain, the Castell de Kafka and La Fábrica – a repurposed cement factory containing the RBTA headquarters and Bofill’s family home.
More recently, his studio completed the sail-shaped W Barcelona Hotel in Spain and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco.
Bofill received a number of awards for his work, including the Ciudad de Barcelona Prize of Architecture for La Fábrica and The Israelí Building Center’s Life Time Achievement Award.
He was also an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the Association of German Architects.
In tribute to his immense body of work, we revisit La Fábrica, an abandoned cement factory outside Barcelona.
The colossal (and ever ongoing) project saw the architect transform the existing property into a pioneering studio, with his family’s living space nestled inside.
Photo Salva López / Kristina Avdeeva / Courtesy Of Ricardo Bofill Taller De Arquitectura, Ricardo Bofill, Gestalten 2019
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Magazine page
When we wished
Artist painted and found paper collage
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1989 house for sale - 9833 NW 9th Court, Plantation, Fla.
Love the glass block, the matching high-gloss black vertical blinds and ceiling fan, and the 80s art deco ceiling light hanging above the front door (reminds me of the one in Christin'e apartment in the Miami Vice episode “By Hooker By Crook”).
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Post #145
1988 condo for sale - 5893 Sunswept Lane #B, Boynton Beach, Fla.
So much 80s pomo perfection in this house…
You don’t see a lot of bedspreads and pillow-shams from 1988. Very cool!
Also, note the black/off-white/salmon color trio echoed on both the bedspread in the bedroom and the couch pillows in the living room. This was a popular motif from about 1986/1987 to the end of the decade.
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Post #143
1989 house for sale - 19707 Bay Cove Drive, Boca Raton, Fla.
Love the mirrored canopy bed!
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