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India, the land of contradictory existence, displays an ingrained philosophy of detachment balanced with the quest to gain eternity. The latter impulse seems to have taken hold of the present government, goading it to remain steadfast on its decision to create its own Ozymandian architectural legacy the Central Vista project in New Delhi. Coming up at a cost of Rs 20,000 crore ($2.8 billion), the ongoing initiative has been categorised as an essential service even amid mammoth pandemic misgovernance that has resulted in innumerable deaths, economic rupture and much more.
The remaking of New Delhi’s Central Vista has appalled the hapless citizenry, because it breaks a kind of democratic compact between citizen and government, where they jointly own the historical commons. Timothy Hyde, architectural historian at MIT, has written of this mutuality: “Every building is ultimately a compromise…between the intentions
Recent acquisitions on display at the Morris Museum of Art
Gladys Nelson Smith, Frederick County Farmhands, undated. Oil on Masonite. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
AUGUSTA, GA
.- An exhibition of recent acquisitions, currently on display at the Morris Museum of Art, highlights a selection made from the more than two hundred works of art added to the permanent collection during 2020. The exhibition remains on display through June 6, 2021.
Recent Acquisitions celebrates the art of the South and the artists who created it, as well as the many generous donors whose gifts of art have broadened and deepened the museums already admired collection. Those donors include: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City; Bobbi Adams, a stalwart figure in South Carolinas art scene from her home and studio in Bishopville; the estate of Lucile Eleanor Caraker (through the intercession of Jean Michael, Cole Murphy, and Mary Ann Sears); Nelson Danish, longtime resident of
MIT offers free access to 34 major architecture books archinect.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archinect.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The MIT Press launches new open access collection of 34 classic architecture and urban studies titles
An unprecedented digitization program makes out-of-print works by George L. Hersey, Richard Freedman, Mark Jarzombek, Moshe Safdie, Peter Rowe, Galen Cranz, Arthur Pulos, Gilbert Hubert, and others available as ebooks for the first time.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS
.- Today, the MIT Press launched MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies, a robust digital collection of classic and previously out-of-print architecture and urban studies books, on their digital book platform MIT Press Direct. The collection was funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Humanities Open Book Program, which they co-sponsored with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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