Forthcoming: The Roger L. Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-161
Author(s):  
Brian Martin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
State Building ◽  
Harold Pinter ◽  
Tom Stoppard ◽  
Jean Giraudoux ◽  
West Side Story ◽  
Bus Stop ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Empire State Building ◽  
Peter Shaffer

Roger Stevens has always been a visionary. His career began in real estate, where he gained national recognition for buying the Empire State Building for $51.5 million—at the time the highest price ever paid for one building—and selling it three years later for a ten-million dollar profit. As he expanded into theatre, he quickly became one of the nation's foremost producers on Broadway, producing more than 200 shows over the last half century, including West Side Story, A Man for All Seasons, Bus Stop, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Deathtrap, and Mary, Mary. He “discovered” playwrights such as Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and Terence Rattigan for New York audiences, and he has worked closely with others, already established, such as Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, Jean Giraudoux, and T.S. Eliot Three United States presidents have depended on Stevens for their arts and humanities policy, and the American theatrical community has benefitted from his intuitive vision.

scholarly journals EDITOR'S NOTE

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Beth Baron
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
State Building ◽  
Editorial Office ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Empire State Building ◽  
City College ◽  
The City ◽  
Early Islamic

This edition of the journal appears under my name and that of the new managing editor, Sara Pursley, but the articles ran the gauntlet of the review process under the watchful eyes of Judith E. Tucker and her able managing editor, Sylvia Whitman. I am enormously indebted to them for handing off the journal in such excellent shape, leaving us with detailed instructions and supplying a backlog of accepted articles to help cushion the landing of the journal at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The transition of the editorial office could not have been accomplished without the support of our provost, Chase Robinson, whom many of you know as a specialist in early Islamic history. Colleagues affiliated with the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center and the Programs in History at the Graduate Center and City College have welcomed the journal to its new home across the street from the Empire State Building.

Warhol, Andy (1926–1987)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mal Ahern
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
York City ◽  
Slow Motion ◽  
Screen Test ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
State Building ◽  
Empire State Building ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Cross Dressing ◽  
A Minor

Andy Warhol was a painter, filmmaker, producer, and multi-media artist. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennyslvania and worked in New York City from the 1940s onward. He started his career as a commercial artist before moving into fine-art painting in the 1950s. Between 1962 and 1968, he made hundreds of films, ranging from a series of short ‘‘Screen Tests,’’ to the notorious, eight-hour film Empire (1965), which comprised a series of stable, slow motion shots of the Empire State Building. Warhol’s films were notorious for their spare aesthetic and banal subject matter: he created films of people eating, sleeping, getting haircuts, and simply staring at the camera. His sound films, like Poor Little Rich Girl (1965, starring Edie Sedgwick) and Screen Test #2 (1965, starring Mario Montez) show their stars sparring with an off-screen voice. Warhol’s work was also notable for the fact that it depicted the lives and personalities of Warhol’s friends and acquaintances, most of whom were a part of New York City’s queer ‘‘underground.’’ His two-screen, three-plus hour epic Chelsea Girls became a minor hit because of its frank depiction of queer sex, cross-dressing, and drug use. After Warhol was shot in 1968, he retreated from filmmaking, but continued to create paintings and other artworks.

The Inside/Outside Equation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Gumpert ◽  
Susan J. Drucker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
State Building ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Times Square ◽  
Empire State Building ◽  
Architectural Structures ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the relationship between the internal façade and internal structure of buildings to elucidate how digital buildings have generated new levels of interactivity between people and structures. Applying a media ecology approach to the analysis of digital buildings, such as Times Square “zipper” and the Empire State Building in New York, the authors demonstrate how such buildings transform the relationship between inside and outside of architectural structures, and intensify the capacity to meaningfully communicate with contemporary publics. They argue that the multitudinous uses to which digital media façades are put, is consistent with the ethos of public space.

scholarly journals THE WALWORTH ALTERNATIVE: RETAINING AND ENHANCING BRITAIN'S SOCIAL HOUSING ESTATES UTILISING CONTEMPORARY TIMBER CONSTRUCTION

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Kane ◽  
Ron Yee
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Potential Model ◽  
State Building ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Empire State Building ◽  
Timber Construction ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
Housing Estates

INTRODUCTION This paper describes the research designs of London South Bank University (LSBU) Masters of Architecture students who investigated the future housing needs of expanding cities, focusing in detail on the Walworth area of South London as a potential model for application elsewhere. The students then proposed innovative ideas on how to expand and remodel the Aylesbury Housing Estate through the use of contemporary timber construction without resorting to wholescale demolition. The study is part of ongoing research into resource efficient architecture and planning by the M. Arch - Resource Studio 22 tutored by Mike Kane and Ron Yee at LSBU. The field of study was inspired by the Metsäwood's Plan B research program of case studies on iconic buildings, such as the Empire State Building in New York and the Colosseum in Rome, that re-engineered them in timber. (a) During the study period LSBU with the support of Metsäwood organised the “Urban Wood” seminar where 3 renowned architects were invited to speak about building advanced engineered timber buildings within dense urban London locations.

Virtual Embodiment as/and the Threshold of Love

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Harris
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
State Building ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Empire State Building ◽  
Arcades Project ◽  
Performance Texts ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Stranger

This essay draws upon the author’s performance script Fall and Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project as a provocation for considering the ways performance texts provide a threshold for somatic inquiry, and for recognizing the limits of scholarly analysis that does not take up performance-as-inquiry. Set at the Empire State Building, this essay embodies the connections and missed possibilities between strangers and intimates in the context of urban modern life. Fall’s protagonist is positioned within a landscape of capitalist exchange, but defies this matrix to offer instead a gift at the threshold of life/death, virtual/real, and love/loss. Through somatic inquiry and witnessing as threshold experiences, the protagonist (as Benjamin’s flaneur) moves through urban space and time, proving that both scholarship and performance remain irrevocably embodied, and as such invariably tethered to the visceral, the stranger, risk, and death.

scholarly journals Revisiting the construction of the Empire State Building: Have we forgotten something?

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Mattias Jacobsson ◽  
Timothy L. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
State Building ◽  
Empire State Building
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