Download or read book Building for the Arts written by Peter Frumkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, the arts in America have experienced an unprecedented building boom, with more than sixteen billion dollars directed to the building, expansion, and renovation of museums, theaters, symphony halls, opera houses, and centers for the visual and performing arts. Among the projects that emerged from the boom were many brilliant successes. Others, like the striking addition of the Quadracci Pavilion to the Milwaukee Art Museum, brought international renown but also tens of millions of dollars of off-budget debt while offering scarce additional benefit to the arts and embodying the cultural sector’s worst fears that the arts themselves were being displaced by the big, status-driven architecture projects built to contain them. With Building for the Arts, Peter Frumkin and Ana Kolendo explore how artistic vision, funding partnerships, and institutional culture work together—or fail to—throughout the process of major cultural construction projects. Drawing on detailed case studies and in-depth interviews at museums and other cultural institutions varying in size and funding arrangements, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Atlanta Opera, and AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, Frumkin and Kolendo analyze the decision-making considerations and challenges and identify four factors whose alignment characterizes the most successful and sustainable of the projects discussed: institutional requirements, capacity of the institution to manage the project while maintaining ongoing operations, community interest and support, and sufficient sources of funding. How and whether these factors are strategically aligned in the design and execution of a building initiative, the authors argue, can lead an organization to either thrive or fail. The book closes with an analysis of specific tactics that can enhance the chances of a project’s success. A practical guide grounded in the latest scholarship on nonprofit strategy and governance, Building for the Arts will be an invaluable resource for professional arts staff and management, trustees of arts organizations, development professionals, and donors, as well as those who study and seek to understand them.

Download or read book A Bitter Pill to Swallow written by Tiffany Gholar and published by Tiffany Gholar. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the edge of the Chicago medical district, the Harrison School for Exceptional Youth looks like a castle in a snow globe. Janina has been there since she was ten years old, and now she's fourteen. She feels so safe inside its walls that she's afraid to leave. Devante's parents bring him there after a tragedy leaves him depressed and suicidal. Even though he's in a different place, he can't escape the memories that come flooding back when he least expects them. Dr. Gail Thomas comes to work there after quitting her medical residency. Frustrated and on the verge of giving up on her dreams, she sees becoming a counselor as her last chance to put her skills to the test. When he founded the school, Dr. Lutkin designed its unique environment to be a place that would change the students' lives. He works hard as the keeper of other people's secrets, though he never shares any of his own. But everything changes late in the winter of 1994 when these four characters' lives intersect in unexpected ways. None of them will ever be the same.

Download or read book Michigan Modern written by Amy Arnold and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America is an impressive collection of important essays touching on all aspects of Michigan’s architecture and design heritage. The Great Lakes State has always been known for its contributions to twentieth-century manufacturing, but it’s only beginning to receive wide attention for its contributions to Modern design and architecture. Brian D. Conway, Michigan’s State Historic Preservation Officer, and Amy L. Arnold, project manager for Michigan Modern, have curated nearly thirty essays and interviews from a number of prominent architects, academics, architectural historians, journalists, and designers, including historian Alan Hess, designers Mira Nakashima, Ruth Adler Schnee, and Todd Oldham, and architect Gunnar Birkerts, describing Michigan’s contributions to Modern design in architecture, automobiles, furniture and education.

Download or read book Building Type Basics for Performing Arts Facilities written by Hugh Hardy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-02-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Hardy covers the essentials of designing performing arts facilities, including need-to-know information about design renovation, & technical aspects such as lighting, acoustics & materials.

Download or read book Palace of State written by Thomas E. Luebke and published by Us Commission of Fine Arts. This book was released on 2018 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towering over the White House, the colossal granite Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) was first constructed to house the departments of State, War, and Navy in the nineteenth century, and it now serves as the home of the Executive Office of the President. Having outlasted decades of plans threatening alteration or outright demolition, the building survives as one of the foremost examples of Second Empire design in the United States. Palace of State details the building's rich architectural and historical legacy -- from the beginnings of federal civic architecture in Washington to its construction as the world's largest office building after the Civil War, and culminating in the recently completed restoration process that began in the 1980s. Featuring beautifully rendered architectural drawings, historic images, and lush contemporary photography, this illustrated history presents a comprehensive study of an iconic landmark that continues to serve in its role as a monumental setting for statecraft.

Download or read book Detroit s Downtown Movie Palaces written by Michael Hauser and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spokelike grid of wide grand avenues radiating out from downtown Detroit allowed for a concentration of theaters initially along Monroe Street near Campus Martius and, after the second decade of the 20th century, clustered around Grand Circus Park, all easily accessible by a vast network of streetcars. In its heyday, Grand Circus Park boasted a dozen palatial movie palaces containing an astonishing total of 26,000 seats. Of these theaters, five remain today, fully restored and operational for live entertainment. Detroit, more so than any other North American city, illustrates how demographic and economic forces dramatically changed the landscape of film exhibition in an urban setting.

Download or read book The Art of Building Cities written by Camillo Sitte and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic is organized as follows: I. The Relationship Between Buildings, Monuments, and Public Squares II. Open Centers of Public Places III. The Enclosed Character of the Public Square IV. The Form and Expanse of Public Squares V. The Irregularity of Ancient Public Squares VI. Groups of Public Squares VII. Arrangement of Public Squares in Northern Europe VIII. The Artless and Prosaic Character of Modern City Planning IX. Modern Systems X. Modern Limitations on Art in City Planning XI. Improved Modern Systems XII. Artistic Principles in City Planning— An Illustration XIII. Conclusion

Download or read book Downtown Chicago s Historic Movie Theatres written by Konrad Schiecke and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of downtown Chicago--its early development, later struggles, and current restoration--is mirrored in the history of the theatres that occupied its streets. This vivid chronicle tells the tale of the Windy City's theatres, from mid-nineteenth century vaudeville houses to the urban decline and renewal of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Discussed are the rebuilding efforts after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the first nickel theaters showing "moving pictures," the ornate silent movie palaces, the move to "talkies," the challenges of the Great Depression and the introduction of television, and urban decline. Today, Chicago has preserved some of its most historic movie palaces, landmarks of cultural vibrancy in its reawakened downtown. With nearly 200 photographs from the Theatre Historical Society of America, this work brings to life all of the theatres that have enlivened Chicago's entertainment district, reflecting the transformation of downtown Chicago itself.

Download or read book Earth Now written by Katherine Ware and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents delicious and easy to prepare recipes and dishes from the northern region of Mexico.

Download or read book The Underpants written by Steve Martin and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theobald Maske has an unusual problem: his wife's underpants won't stay on. One Sunday morning they fall to her ankles right in the middle of town--a public scandal! Mortified, Theo swears to keep her at home until she can find some less unruly undies. Amid this chaos he's trying to rent a room in their flat. The prospective lodgers have some underlying surprises of their own. In The Underpants, Steve Martin brings his comic genius and sophisticated literary style to Carl Sternheim's classic 1910 farce, Die Hose. His hilarious new version was staged by Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, and opened in March '02 on Off-Broadway to critical acclaim.

Download or read book Poetry A Magazine of Verse Volume XVIII written by Harriet Monroe and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Download or read book The Joy of Natural Living written by Luis S. R. Vas and published by Pustak Mahal. This book was released on 2001-08-03 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True, synthetic materials and laboratory-created products and medicines etc., have a significant role to play in the modern life. But at the same time, we cannot underestimate the role of natural products and remedies. With this clear objective, this book incorporates research findings on health, psychology, body-care and spirituality with emphasis on the benefits of natural living. the authors hope the reader will be able to regain natural joy by experimenting with some of the advice from experts presented here. the book includes: Coping with stress through relaxation techniques and pleasant and positive thoughts. Role of diet in achieving mental & physical well-being. Safe and successful physical activity programme. Natural grooming and herbal preparation to attain increased self-confidence.

Download or read book Brooklyn Museum of Art written by James Leggio and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history and development of this popular Mahattan museum.

Download or read book Rafael Moneo Audrey Jones Beck Building The Museum of Fine Arts Houston written by Martha Thorne and published by Axel Menges. This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston is a unique collection of buildings by famous architects. The most recent one is the Audrey Jones Beck Building by Rafael Moneo.

Download or read book Ken Ludwig s Sherwood written by Ken Ludwig and published by Samuel French, Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with thrills, romance, laughter, and immortal characters like Little John, Friar Tuck, and Maid Marian, Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood tells the enduring story of a hero of the people who takes on the ruthless powers that be. So get ready to duck a quarterstaff or two - you won't want to miss a moment of the swashbuckling fun! -- Back cover.

Download or read book 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens written by Sibyl Kempson and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the texts of a three-year performance immersion project by Sibyl Kempson and her company, 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. & Perf Co.12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens is a three-year performance immersion project by playwright, director, and performer Sibyl Kempson and her company, 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. & Perf Co. Presented at the Whitney on each solstice and equinox between March 2016 and December 2018, the 12 Shouts are anarchic, mischievous rituals excavating history, mythology, art history, metaphysics, and ritual to create a new ceremonial calendar and contemporary mythology. Wicked, wiccan, wacky, awake, the 12 Shouts attend to the specific cycles of days and seasons and to the the Whitney's particular architecture, location, and history. As with ritual (which gathers transitory and ephemeral human expression and wisdom), each performance reaffirmed a temporal and mythic order of deeper significance, moving from a stochastic state of complexity and fragmentation to the deep structural essences of cosmological unity. This volume collects the texts of all three summer solstices, alongside extensive photo-documentation of the events by Paula Court.

Download or read book Maestrapeace written by Juana Alicia and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A beautiful coffee table book celebrating the Maestrapeace Mural that adorns San Francisco Mission District's Women's Building, in time for the 25th anniversary of the mural in 2019"--