NEW YORK (NYTIMES) - I.M. Pei, the Chinese-born American architect who began his long career working for a New York real-estate developer and ended it as one of the most revered architects in the world, has died. He was 102. His son Chien Chung Pei said on Thursday (May 16) that his father had died overnight. Mr Pei was probably best known for designing the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the glass pyramid that serves as an entry for the Louvre in Paris. In Singapore, he was responsible for three landmarks - OCBC Centre, Raffles City and the trapezoidal The Gateway in Beach Road. He was hired by Mr William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp in 1948 before establishing his own architectural firm in 1955. In its early years, I. M. Pei & Associates mainly executed projects for Mr Zeckendorf, including Kips Bay Plaza in New York, finished in 1963; Society Hill Towers in Philadelphia (1964); and Silver Towers in New York (1967). All were notable for their … [Read more...] about I.M. Pei, world-renowned architect, dies aged 102
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Here’s why you’ll see photographer Carrie Mae Weems’ work all over Toronto this month
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By Chris Hampton Special to the Star Mon., April 29, 2019 This month, Toronto gets its first good look at the work of an artist acclaimed for the way she sees and makes sense of the moment around her. Carrie Mae Weems, headliner of this year’s Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, received her first camera as a gift when she was about 20. The first thing she photographed, she recalls, was a friend. The second was “probably a demonstration.” The young Weems was quick to recognize the device as a powerful tool; a tool she could use to engage with the world, she says, and to explore the human condition. “And I think that I continue to do that. It hasn’t changed much since the very beginning. I think the only difference is that I’ve learned how to do that more expressively over time.” This deep, humanistic curiosity, abetted by the camera lens, has today become a career roughly four decades long and celebrated widely. The … [Read more...] about Here’s why you’ll see photographer Carrie Mae Weems’ work all over Toronto this month