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New museum

Conceived as a series of shifting stacked volumes wrapped in aluminum mesh. The New Museum of Contemporary Art is a vertical study in place-making. Its three distinct windowless galleries-18,21,and 24 feet-high, respectively- are at once both part of and separate from the surrounding, rapidly gentrifying Bowery neighborhood.” The volumetric shift is where the interaction with the city takes place-and with light.” Explains SANAA project architect Florian Idenburg.Critical to the architects’ design was that each gallery should have different quality of light. A series of perimeter skylights at each of the building’s volumetric shifts allows daylight to enter the galleries,enhancing the light system designed by Suzan Tilotson of Tolotson Design Associates. Rather than “step down the daylight infiltration with severe diffusion,” as Tillotson puts it, the lighting team opted “ to maintain the character and color of the light and filter it through multiple refractive layers.” The skylights are composed five layers: an exterior metal grate, an insulated glass unit with UV filtration, a custom-designed fritted glass, automated blackout shades, and a polycarbonate light refraction material. With the blackout shades in the open position at night, interior light washes upward through the skylights, creating an ambient glow on the building’s mesh façade. The electric lighting design also follows the architecture’s lead. Tilotson devised a scheme that balances daylight and electric sources, while meeting the bright light levels the architects desired -50 footcandles.” SANAA wanted crisp white boxes of light,” Tilloson explains. The solution is a  custom-designed track, which Tilloson describes as “a high- power electrical busway spine.” The track combines two illumination sources, linear fluorescent and quartz halogen PAR lamps. The design’s fluorescent component -54W T5HOs and UV sleeves – acts as exhibit and architectural lighting. The track is aligned with the building’s structural grid and provides what Tillotson calls a “unified datum” for the lighting throughout the museum. The quartz halogen lamps provide additional accent lighting for individual pieces of art. 

As provocative as the institution it houses, the New Museum casts a striking silhouette against the backdrop of downtown New York. Materials such as metal, concrete, and glass, which in the hands of other designers might not fare so well, take on an elegant simplicity, providing the perfect foil for the constant ebb and flow of city life – and light. 

Audio system design

Jonathan shor is the director of tecnology at an AV system design and integration firm,which handled audio design and interation at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC building in NYC.Shor had been deal with special requests in its main lobby and boardroom.

“the board room was a challenge,”shor states,”because they didn’t want typical ceiling speakers, and the ceiling was an important architectural element that couldn’t be touched except to spray with absorptive material.We created seperate program audio from the telecomunications system.the program audio for a rear-projection creen on a wall ,and we inserted left/right speakers there.That system handles videoconferencing,DVD playback,PowerPoint presentations,and other program materials.”

the work didn’t stop there:The boardroom table became a piece of audiovisal equipment.Mccann professionals built small,oval-shaped speakers and mics into the table.they had to find a speaker that worked in close proximity to the  mic without feedback and then fit mics,speakers,as well as flip-up video monitors,into the table.

Even more intriguing,a self-powered subwoofer was built into the pedestal.the audio system includes processing for microphone inputs and outputs to amplifiers and mixers and a DSP engine for handling crossover,delay,and EQ that allows the system to adapt and match the room respondse.

D.C. Departure_a true Washingtonian gets a last taste of the city before he moves

How D.C. I am?I was born here.Raised in the ‘burbs.Went to GW and lived here ever since.

I own a famed a portrait of Gilbert Arennas.My heart beats go-go breaks and Fugazi drum fills.Trace amounts of chili from Ben’s chili bowl can be found in my blood stream.

And now I have left.I ‘ve laned  that perfect job in the neighboring city four hours north,forcing me to say goodbye to a place I still can’t imagining growing tired of.

but I didn’t spent my final days in the district paking boxes and sitting on hold with the oh-so-help ful forks at Verizon.No way.

i squeezed in some time to visit my favorite spots in town-a goodbye to the weird and wonderful site that, for me, capture the boundless energy and intanglble beauty of Washington.

The donnie Simpson Show

My first stop is on the FM dial to hear a tune that’s been bouncing out my clock radio for as long as I can remember:”The donnie Simpson Show!The donnie Simpson Show!Donnie i the morning!get up!Get up!Everybody get up!”More than the Easterns Automotive jingle,Simpson’s morning show theme song on WPGC(95.5FM)is the local ditty I’ll miss most.

A Drive Down Rock Creek Parkway

When does a ‘98 Honda Accord feel like a Porsche 911?When I’m navigating the twists, turns and turnels of Rock Creek Parkway,er,Raceway.Sure,Rock Creek Park provides scenic routes for joggers,walkers and bicyclist,but nothing feels quite like getting behind the wheel and hugging those curves on a sunny afternoon.

Rembrandt’s self-Potrait

Rembrandt van Rijn and I are locked in one final starting contest,and it looks as if he’s going to win …..again.But don’t blame me for trying.this self-potrait from 1659 in the National Gallery’s West Building is one of the most arresting paintings ever slopped onto a canvas,conveying such vitality,such life,I’m convinced old Remy has to blink someday.

The Newsroom

This Dupont Circle magzine rack stocks reads form artforum Forum to Archie Comics, punk fanzines to French fashion mags.It even has machine that print the copies of newspapers from around the world.And on my last visit,there was plenty of what i always come to the newsroom for:peace,quite and elbow room.

Fort Reno Park

most of the music venues I frequented as a punk-obsessed teenager have been moved,closed and/or bulldozed into condominium fodder.Thankfully,the stage at Fort Reno Park still stands.I’ve been dancing in Fort Reno Park for more than a decade,listening the Washington’s best rock bands make some fantastic noise.

Burrito Cart,17th and K NW

How many lunches have I eaten at here?two hundred?there hundred? it has povided me with some deliciouse meals,not to mention sweet reprieve from my workday world.i asked him to douse my final burrito in extra cholula.If I start getting weepy,I can blame the hot sauce.

Poetry And Prose

This Art Preview edition of the paper appears the day before Super Tuesday in the presidential primary elections.Of couse,many consider politics to be an art. Mario Cuomo,ackoledgeing the artistic side of politics,famously said that candidats should “campaign in poetry and govern in prose.”

Hillary Clinton has been campaigning for president in prose:all policy wonk with five and ten-point plans for every conceivable issue.She often sounds as if she  is stuck the weeds,unable to see the bigger picture.Barrack Obama, on the other hand,has inspired in a verse so poetic that no one seems to know how he would to govern as president.Calling for undefineed change” and “coming together to transcend partisanship” is ispirational rhetoric but falls far short of a legislative agenda or even a set of govering principles.

Monosyllabic Slip

NBC is apologizing again-this time for Jane Fonda.the actress used a vulgar slang term on the “today”s show Tursday while talking about the play “the Vagina monologues” .fonda said that she was asked to perform a monologue with a slang term for vagina as a title.about 10 minutes later,co-hoster Meredith Vieira told viewrs that “today” and Fonda apologized for the remak.

Duty

the president is the head of the state of the United States of America and is the Chief Executive Officer and the Commander in the chief of all millitary forces. The powers of the president are describled in the Constitution and Federal Law. The president appoints the members of the Cabinet, ambassadors to other nations and the United Nations, Super Court Justices and Federal judgesb sublect to Senate approval. The president, alone with the Cabinet and its agencies, is resposible for carrying out  and enforcing the laws of United States. The President may also recommend legislation to the United States Congress.

the art of long view

Voters’ Guide

Hillary Clinton:

Fossil Fuels: Hilary’s plan to move our country toward energy independence has three big goals; to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% from 1990 level by 2050;to cut foreign oil imports by two-thirds from projected levels by 2030;and to transform our carbon-based economy into an efficient green economy.

 

Iraq and the Middle East: Hillary will end the war in Iraq. She will replace our troops with a new diplomatic initiative to restore stability to Iraq and the region. She will ensure that American plays a constructive and engaged role in a renewed Middle East peace process.

 

Health Coverage: Hillary has a plan to ensure quality, affordable health care for all Americans. Under her plan, individuals will get a tax credit to help pay premiums; insurance companies won’t be able to discriminate based on pre-existing conditions; and people won’t lose coverage if they switch or lose their jobs.

 

Campaign Spending Limits: Hillary will work to move our country to a public financing system that is both fair and effective. It is the only real solution to reducing the influence of money in politics, and she will help pass and sign into law a meaningful, fair, and comprehensive public financing system.

 

Immigration: Hillary supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes strengthening our borders; placing stronger sanctions on employers; supporting family reunification; and providing a path to earned legalization for people who have been living in US respecting the law, learning English and willing to meet a high bar.

 

John Mccan:

Fossil Fuels: I believe that strengthening our energy security goes hand-in-hand with addressing global climate change. I favor a market-based, cap and trade system to achieve appropriate limits on green house gas emission efficiently and effectively. Under that system, every firm will have clear rewards to diversifying our energy mix.

 

Iraq and the Middle East: Two generations of Americans have fought wars in Iraq; we can’t condemn the third to the same fate by letting that country become a failed state in which we must again intervene. Anchoring Iraq in a stable, prosperous region must be the purpose of American strategy in the Middle East.

 

Health Coverage: the problem of American health care is not one of quality, but one of cost. I have proposed a health care plan that addresses the escalating cost of health care to ensure more American family can afford access to the finest health care system in the world.

 

Campaign Spending Limits: there will always be money in politics, but I firmly believe we need to have balance that prevents special interests from using their combined billions of dollars to buy influence in a way that undermines the ability of representatives to fairly represent the interests of all their constituents.

Immigration:  If I learned anything from the recent immigration debate, it is that the American lost their trust that their government will take the measures necessary to secure our borders. As president, I will secure our nation’s borders before addressing any our additional pressing immigration concerns.

 

Barack Obama:

Fossil Fuels:

Obama supports a bold market-based cap-and trade system to reduce dependence on foreign oil and compact climate change. Obama will also dramatically increase investment in clean energy technologies and energy efficiency. He  proposes increasing fuel efficiency standards, biofuels, electricity from renewable sources, and a low carbon fuel standard.

 

Iraq and Middle East: he opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning. He will withdrawing our troops over 16 months, calling a new constitutional convention, and urging Iraq’s neighbors to work towards stability. He seeks a two-sate solution-Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security.

 

Health Coverage:

Obama will sign universal health legislation by the end of his first term, ensuring all Americans have high-quality, affordable coverage. His plan will save  a typical American family up to $2,500 annually; modernize our healthcare system to contain cost and improve quality; and promote prevention and public health.

 

Campaign Spending Limits:

Obama strongly supports public financing of elections and does not accept any compaign donations from federal lobbyists or PAC’s. Obama has co-sponsored legislation that would create a voluntary system to provide full public funding for candidates who agree to spending the limites.

 

Immigration:  Obama supports comprehensive immigration reform that strengthens border security; fix our broken immigration bureaucracy; and creates a responsible path to citizenship that requires undocumented immigrants to pay a fine, learn English, follow the law, and go to the back of the line.

Watercolors of John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent(1856-1925) stands among the great watercolorists,shoulder to shoulder with J.M.W.Tuner,winslow Homer and other masters of this difficult medium.Sargent’s early watercolor sketches served as  studies for oil paintings and portrait commissions.After 1900 watercolor became the preferred medium for expressing his personal artistic version.Often spontaneous,these watercolors are masterworks.

This first comprehensive survey devoted solely to Sargent’s watercolors contains over 150 works in color-many of them never before reproduced.Watercolor is ideally suited to landscapes-capturing the scene,the light,the air-and Sargent carried his watercolor everywhere:Palestain,North Africa,Spain,Greece,Italy,Switzerland,France,New England,Scotland,England,the CanadianRockies and Florida.He painted oliver trees in Majorca and Corfu,gondolas,bridges and facades of buildings in Venice,the rock quarries in Carrara,the vertiginouse heights of the Simplon Pass,a crashed airplane in France,a wayside crucifix in the Tyrol,Arab gypsies and World Wat 1 soldiersHe also did studies after nature,including brilliant depictions of pomegranates and gourds hanging among shadowy boughs and marvelous alligators in Florida.

Carl Little’s text places the artist’s accomplishments in the context of his life and times and discusses his extraordinary watercolor technique.

Even at the height of the modern movement,Sargent’s popularity never wanted.His bold and often experimental manner with medium,which sometimes led to semi-abstract images,continues to find an admiring audience among today’s painters and art students.Critics and public alike find that his virtuosity and sigle-minded commitment merit the praise they recieved in his lifetime.