Since this column is about the arts, as well as media and culture, may I
\nrecommend three art shows? <\/P>
\n
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\nbusch-reisinger.”<\/STRONG> <\/EM><\/A>It comes to us from Harvard and offers details of
\nBauhaus design — the thingness of things — in five categories of what I would call Platonic
\nessences: LAMP, CHAIR, HOUSE, STAGE, AUTO (as in car). Although not interactive (thank
\ngawd!), the online program is fully engaging.<\/P>
\n
\nBerlin<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> is the place to go. Its current exhibit,
\nArchitectural Visions of Expressionism,”<\/FONT> <\/STRONG><\/EM><\/A>runs though Sept.
\n15. Overlooking the fact that “few of the buildings designed by Bauhaus architects were actually
\nbuilt,” as it was modestly put by a report in THIS WEEK IN GERMANY (from the official
\nGerman Information Center), the Bauhaus style “remains Germany’s most lasting contribution to
\narchitecture.” <\/P>
\n
\nbeer to them — there’s the current exhibit of
\nLesser Collection,”<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> just extended through Oct. 19 at the
\nMuseum of Art<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/A>. The gritty, lurid, fantastical pulp magazines
\nfrom the ’20s through the ’40s had remarkable cover illustrations first created as
\npaintings. More than 100 of these paintings are on view. For example:
\nand
\nMagazine<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>.<\/P>
\n
\nnotes, which take a page from the pulps’ overwrought literary style itself. Especially during the
\nGreat Depression, pulp stories offered “a passport into worlds of adventure and romance,”
\nwhile pulp art “helped readers to visualize everything from ancient civilizations to outer
\nspace — from faraway lands to the dark recesses of the imagination.”<\/P>
\n
\nto me that the style of those existential Platonists could have lent itself mightily to the
\nmedium.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"