{"id":1137,"date":"2005-05-26T10:29:19","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T17:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/05\/swooning_for_art_deco_on_a_gra\/"},"modified":"2005-05-26T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T17:29:19","slug":"swooning_for_art_deco_on_a_gra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/05\/swooning_for_art_deco_on_a_gra.html","title":{"rendered":"SWOONING FOR ART DECO ON A GRAND SCALE"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chrysler Building gets the lyrical treatment<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> for its 75th birthday in today’s New York
\nTimes from:
\n

<\/P>
\n

<\/A>David W. Dunlap: “Juke Joint in the
\nSky”<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>
Michael J. Lewis: “Dancing to New Rules, a Rhapsody in
\nChrome”<\/B><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>
Charles McGrath: “A Lunch Club for the
\nHigher-Ups”<\/B><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>
William L. Hamilton: “On Top of the World, Drafting, Dreaming and
\nDrilling”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
Elaine Louie: “How It Sparkled in the Skyline,”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> with personal
\ncommentaries from Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Barney, Robert A.M. Stern, Ron Chernow,
\nStephen Bennett Phillips, Ada Louise Huxtable, Paul Goldberger, Alexandros Washburn, Carl
\nSpeilvogel, Theodore Prudon, Dorothy Twining Globus and, saved for nearly last perhaps
\nbecause he strikes the only sour note, Jimmy Breslin. “It’s nice,” he says. But he prefers the
\nFlatiron Building “a hundred to nothing over the Chrysler.”

(The Chrysler crown and
\nspire, above, courtesy of the Margaret Bourke-White Collection, Special Collections Research
\nCenter, Syracuse University Library, via the Times.)<\/P>
\n

<\/P>And here’s our far more moody
\ntreatment<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> <\/FONT>from “Big Apple
\nPortraits,”<\/B> a five-part video\/audio essay on New York City posted in April. For the
\nwhole series, just click:
\n

<\/P>
\n

Part 1: “Times Square at
\nNight.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
Part 2: “Chrysler Building.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
Part 3: “Inwood.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
Part 4: “Ghost Reflections on Fifth Avenue.”<\/B><\/FONT><\/A>
Part 5: “Greenwich Village.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chrysler Building gets the lyrical treatment for its 75th birthday in today’s New York Times from: David W. Dunlap: “Juke Joint in the Sky”Michael J. Lewis: “Dancing to New Rules, a Rhapsody in Chrome”Charles McGrath: “A Lunch Club for the Higher-Ups”William L. Hamilton: “On Top of the World, Drafting, Dreaming and Drilling”Elaine Louie: “How […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-il","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}