Raiders of the Lost Archives a Landmark 'Waiting for Godot'
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FRIDAY - SUNDAY, MAY 15 - 17, 2009 Left, ‘The House at the End of the World’ (2005) by David LaChapelle, on show in Paris; above, handbag by Maria Hees, in Amsterdam; below, ‘My Brother, My Enemy’ (2001), by Erbossyn Meldibekov, in Lille. Prague art “Prague Biennale” is an international exhibition of art and photography exploring the latest developments in international art. Karlin Hall This is Until July 26 % 420-222-5123-76 www.praguebiennale.org Schwyz design “The Swiss Army Knife—A Tool That’s Become an Icon” presents a selection of historic pocket knives, a magazine some dating back to the Roman period, as well as some examples of Swiss daggers, exploring the history of the famous Swiss Army knife. Forum of Swiss History May 16-Oct 18 % 41-41-8196-011 www.landesmuseen.ch Stockholm photography “Nature Photographer Lennart Nilsson” shows images from 50 years of nature and wildlife photography by acclaimed Swedish photojournalist and filmmaker David LaChapelle Lennart Nilsson (born 1922). s National Museum of Natural Amsterdam www.kunstmuseumbern.ch signer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976). the New West is the New East…” History fashion Laituri is an art festival dedicated to Until Aug. 30 “Timeless Handbags: 30 years of Brussels May 22-Aug. 29 Eastern Europe and Istanbul with % 46-8519-5400-0 Maria Hees” shows purses and hand- art % 358-9-3103-7390 2,500 events. www.nrm.se bags by the Dutch artist (born 1948). “A Memory of Paper” illustrates a cen- laituri.hel.fi Lille 3000 St. Petersburg Museum of Bags and Purses tury of Jewish life through collected Until July 12 ballet and opera Until June 1 postcards depicting people and places Lausanne % 33-3-2852-3000 “White Nights Arts Festival 2009” is an international ballet and opera % 31-20-5246-452 from Belgian Jewish life. photography www.lille3000.com festival, offering performances by www.tassenmuseum.nl Musée Juif de Belgique “Carlo Valsecchi: Lumen” exhibits large London Maria Guleghina, Anna Netrebko, Until Oct. 15 format photography Italian photogra- photography violinist Leonidas Kavakos and art % 32-2-5121-963 pher Carlo Valsecchi (born 1965). “Bob Dylan 1966 European Tour: others. “Jan Lievens (1607-1674)—A Child www.new.mjb-jmb.org Musée de l'Elysée Photographs by Barry Feinstein” Mariinsky Theatre Prodigy’s Career” exhibits works by Until June 14 documents Bob Dylan’s 1966 European tour. May 21-July 19 the Dutch painter. Dresden % 41-21-3169-911 National Portrait Gallery % 7-812-3264-141 Museum het Rembrandthuis music www.elysee.ch Until Aug. 30 www.mariinskiy.com May 17-Aug. 9 “Dresden Music Festival 2009” offers Liège % 44-20-7306-0055 Stuttgart % 31-20-5200-400 concerts and performances by the art www.rembrandthuis.nl www.npg.org.uk art Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vi- “Of Tomorrow by Delvaux” “Viennese Actionism” explores the enna Philharmonic, Juilliard Dance and showcases paintings featuring Madrid art and artists behind “Viennese Berlin others under the theme “New World.” stations, trains and tramways by Actionism,” part of a series of art art May 20-June 7 Belgian Surrealist artist Paul avant garde movements after the “John Flaxman and the Renaissance” % 49-351-4866-666 Delvaux (1897-1994). “Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923)” end of the World War II. presents the “Adoration of the Magi,” www.musikfestspiele.com Le Grand Curtius Museum brings together about 100 Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Contents in a can a marble relief by the British artist Until June 28 paintings by Spanish artist Joaquín Until July 5 John Flaxman (1755-1826). Helsinki % 32-4-2219-325 Sorolla. % 49-711-4704-00 Bode Museum architecture www.grandcurtiusliege.be Museo Nacional del Prado www.staatsgalerie.de and other ways to play Until July 12 ”Alvar Aalto’s Helsinki Legacy” pre- Lille May 26-Sept. 6 Utrecht % % 49-30-2090-5577 sents 20 buildings in Helsinki de- art 34-91-3302-800 art with the print medium www.smb.museum signed by the Finnish architect and de- “Lille 3000: Europe XXL East is www.museodelprado.es “Masterly Manuscripts—The Middle Munich Ages in Gold and Ink” shows over history photography 100 manuscripts from the 14th “President Barack Obama—On the “Zoe Leonard: Photographs” shows and 15th century. tracks of the Kennedys?” showcases works by the American Museum Catharijneconvent photographs by the official White photographer (born 1961). May 16-Aug. 23 House photographer, Pete Souza. Pinakothek der Moderne % 31-30-2313-835 Kennedy Museum Until July 5 www.catharijneconvent.nl Until Aug. 2 % 49-89-2380-5360 Zurich % 49-30-2065-3570 www.pinakothek.de humor www.thekennedys.de Paris “Witzerland: A Guide to Swiss photography Humour” is a multimedia look at Bern “David LaChapelle” is a humorous interpretations of art retrospective of 200 works by the Switzerland. “Tracey Emin—20 Years” is a retro- American photographer, video, Schweizerisches Landesmuseum spective exhibition of sculptures, paint- commercial and film director (born Until Sept. 13 ings and video work by contemporary 1963). % 41-44-218-6511 British artist Tracey Emin (born 1963). Musée de la Monnaie www.witzerland.ch Kunstmuseum Bern Until May 31 Until June 21 % 33-1-4046-5666 Source: ArtBase Global Arts News % 41-31-3280-944 Maxime Dufour Photographies www.monnaiedeparis.com Service, WSJE research. s Raiders of the lost archives A landmark ‘Waiting for Godot’ W16 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, MAY 15 - 17, 2009 | WEEKEND JOURNAL v Taste 8-9 | Cover story Design 10-11 | Design Masterpiece / By Jill Jonnes Contents Skin deep t 7 Reinventing thoughts That ‘Odious Column’ of Metal 3 | Fashion Collecting: Today the Eiffel Tower, the composer Charles Gounod and ar- The Americans did not hide the miracle of recorded sound at come to see the Eiffel Tower,” Edi- On Style: Briefs encounter the magazine Craftwork world’s most celebrated monu- chitect Charles Garnier all signed their chagrin when they learned the Edison exhibit. son told a mob of journalists Publications that play with the ment and the iconic symbol of this epistolary call to arms, stat- that at 1,000 feet the Eiffel Those emerging from the ele- when he sailed into Le Havre. Af- 4-5 | Belgium’s comic-book crisis Paris, celebrates its 120th anniver- ing that “the Eiffel Tower, which Tower would dethrone their own vator at the tower’s pinnacle ter his first visit to the fair, Edi- Film print medium sary. Strikingly, the fame and al- even commercial America would 555-foot-tall Washington Monu- might have glimpsed Gustave son said: “The Tower is a great lure of this improbable wrought- not have, is without a doubt the ment, finally completed in 1884. Eiffel himself, attired in dark idea. The glory of Eiffel is in the Morgenstern on ‘The Soloist’ 14 | iron masterpiece have only dishonor of Paris.” Sniffed the New York Times’ Prince Albert suit and silk top magnitude of the conception and Top Picks grown with the passing decades. Gustave Eiffel, a self-made mil- Paris correspondent: “The French hat, squiring around yet an- the nerve in the execution.” Nor The tower, built by railway- lionaire whose firm constructed admit [the tower’s] origi- could Edison refrain Soderbergh gets real McKellen and bridge engineer Gustave Eiffel, much-admired bridges all over nality and value, but from boasting that the has become a ubiquitous global the world, happily twitted his they deplore its ugliness U.S. would “build one of Stewart in ‘Godot’ image connoting modernity and critics: “They begin by declaring . au fond, they are not 2,000 feet. We’ll go Making ‘Angels & Demons’ glamour, while visitors who expe- that my tower is not French. It is proud to show this gigan- Eiffel 100% better, with- The many faces of Buddha rience it firsthand big enough and tic iron structure to out discount.” 6-7 are still amazed by clumsy enough for strangers. [T]hey When Eiffel heard of | Books the tower’s potent The Eiffel the English or vote it an abomination this later, he said, “We’ll 15 | mixture of spare ele- Tower Americans, but it is and eyesore.” The Times- see about that.” And not Raiders of the lost archives Taste gance, immensity not our style, they man insisted that the until 1929 (six years af- and complexity. And wasn’t always say. We are more Washington Monument ter Eiffel’s death) did an- t Eiffel’s ‘odious column’ of metal when the Eiffel a beloved icon. occupied by little is “after all, more artis- other structure surpass Tower opens to its artistic bibelots. tic than the Eiffel the Eiffel Tower in adoring public each . Why should we Tower.” In truth, as the height. It was the 16 | Time Off day, the structure comes to life not show the world what we can Eiffel Tower rose grace- Chrysler Building at as crowds gaily clamber up and do in the way of great engineer- fully into the Parisian 1,046 feet. Two years down its stairs, eating, drinking ing projects?” sky, its unique modern later, the Empire State Our arts and culture calendar and flirting on the three plat- In fact, Eiffel was actually beauty catapulted it to Building wrested away forms high in the sky. Open to erecting what ambitious English world acclaim. An entire that title by reaching the elements, enveloped in and American engineers had only industry rushed to churn 1,250 feet. Moreover, Eiffel’s distinctive design, visitors dreamed of for decades: a thou- out Eiffel Tower repli- while Gustave Eiffel’s Cover photo: Òscar Fuentes can see and touch parts of the sand-foot tower. “What was the cas, as Phillip Cate notes original contract called 18,038 pieces of iron (welded to- main obstacle I had to overcome in his book “Eiffel for him to disassemble WSJ.com gether with 2.5 million rivets) as in designing the tower?” asked Tower: A Tour de his tower after 20 years, they ascend heavenward.