"Utopia: n .an impractical idealistic scheme for social and political reform" - The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
For over twenty years the Iraqi-born, English...
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Her Holiness Hadid
This morning, the world discovered that wonderful Zaha Hadid will be showing--and selling--her first collection of haute furniture late this fall at Chelsea's Phillips de Pury...
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Works by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass and the Mariinsky Theater's staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle highlight this year's Lincoln Center Festival.The festival, held from July 10-29, includes 93 perf...
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Vienna (dpa) - Like most urban centres, Austria's capital Vienna
is bursting at the seams. But plans by Vienna's city fathers to build
a new district from scratch are meetin...
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Dresden, Germany (dpa) - Italian conductor Fabio Luisi, 48, is to
lead a top German orchestra this March in a performance in Abu Dhabi
of works by German opera great Richard...
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Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid is best known for the fluid, dancing shapes of her buildings. Now, her designs really are turning into a dance.The Iraqi-born architect has teamed up with interna...
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ABU DHABI—By 8 a.m. on a September morning in Abu Dhabi, the sun is already so strong that if you forget to put on your sunglasses before you step outside, your eyes start to tear up and you ...
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And yet, what with anti-smoking laws, Bill and Monica’s kinky caper and a universal disinclination to call a spade a spade, the phallic interpretation is st...
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Recently, a friend of mine who lives in Brooklyn visited her rich in-laws’ house outside Boston, which had been freshly furnished with pieces by some of today’s most cutting-edge design...
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Artist and socialite Julian Schnabel has lived and worked quietly at his home and studio in a squat, brick building on leafy West 11th Street for more than a decade.
Now the building is a battleg...
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Zaha Hadid: Making Utopia a Reality in Architecture
Zaha Hadid Speaks! On Aqua Tables, Mass Production, and the Guggenheim
