Recounting the life of a late entrepreneur who financed Housing Projects throughout the world and championed privatization and limited government. This is about half an hour. Hi, everybody. Thank you, harvey. Thank you, gail, they said everybody for coming today. Tell wave that figure at me. [laughter] it makes me a little crazy. Its enthusiastic, and thats good. I wanted to think rv. He really was a reporters dream he was always available when i came to talk to him. He had a great memory. Except in the end bonito me like to bucks. What to think patty brown. This is really the big show in which a top. Everyone says, youre going to rotary. Youre going to rotary. So im here at the big show and happy to be here, let me tell you. Special guests today. I want to thank them a great deal the publishers of this book. I appreciate the hard work. I know the effort they made to be with us today. Thank you. And thanks to the front row here. Ever supportive, always supportive and tell me that i cou
Built on a trapezoidal pl of land adjoining the original gallery, the East Building is of a unique and radical design, utilizing triangular shapes with large interior spaces. It was a collaborative effort spanning more than ten years. Director j. Carter brown worked closely with architect i. M. Pei in its development. Seven works of art were commissioned it was agreed that a specific pieceas needed to animate the unbroken expanse of wall in the central courtyard. But the artist would have to have a capacity for monumental concepts, with a sense of color and scale appropriate to the site. A unanimous choice was spanish artist joan miro. Bo in the catalan city of barcelona in 1893, miro has remained close to the land and its people. But as a young man in paris, he joined th friends like max ernst and jean arp in the emerging Surrealist Movement of the 1920s. In his painting the farm, miros characteristic symbols and themes began to appear serpentine shapes, checkerboard patterns, infinit
Before it is too late in life, and before your manner and taste were corrupted or fixed by working in your little way at boston. Narrator an impressive letter to a young painter and from the distinguished sir joshua reynolds. Could he be right . harpsichord continues John Singleton copley loved his country, but he wanted the richer artistic influences of the old world. Besides, talk of revolution was everywhere. Political contests, he felt, were neither pleasing to an artist nor advantageous to art itself. In 1774, copley left; it would make him a better painter, he thought. Sad for him, sad for america he never returned to his home. At 34, John Singleton copley was already one of the best and most popular painters in the american colonies. The Young American artist John Trumbull said of him, an elegantlooking man dressed in fine maroon cloth with gold buttons, this dazzling to my unpracticed eye, but his painting, the first id ever seen deserving the name, rivetedabsorbed my attention
We have a number of stocks to watch this morning. All names that reported after the opening bell. Amazon posted a quarterly loss nearly double wall streets consensus. The results were hurt as the Company Continues a rapid pace of investment. Amazons cfo says the company is spending more than 100 million on original video content in the third quarter. Were going to be talking to an amazon analyst coming. Up lets say that again. Amazon analyst coming up in the next half hour. Visa posted betterthanexpected earnings and revenue. Thats mostly because of growth and cross border transactions than been slowing amid a stronger dollar. And starbucks earnings amid the street. Stronger than expected and take a look, that stock still down by about 2. 5 . Andrew, well send it over to you and the big question is, did you get picked for jury duty yesterday . I did not get picked for jury duty yesterday. I have one more day to go. Supposedly you do two days max if you dont get picked. Im hoping its a