| Robert Kulicke, 83; artist modernized frame design
Robert M. Kulicke, a painter, goldsmith, teacher, businessman, and designer who changed the look of postwar art by modernizing frame design, died on Friday in Valley Cottage, N.Y. He was 83 and had lived in Manhattan until about 18 months ago. The cause was pneumonia, said Roy Davis of Davis & Langdale Co., the gallery that represented Mr. Kulicke since 1974, when it was called Davis & Long. Garrulous, articulate, and confident, Mr. Kulicke was a man of many talents, interests, and passions. He painted and regularly exhibited small, delicate still-lifes of flowers, dollar bills or, often, a single pear. He helped to revive the ancient cloisonné technique of granulation and to establish a school for jewelry making. Widely knowledgeable in art history, he often supported himself and his businesses by buying and selling medieval art and Coptic textiles.
Project Row Houses founder speaks for Architecture Lecture Series
Artist Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses in Houston, will speak about his work at 6:30 p.m. April 13 in Room 458 of Louderman Hall as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' spring Architecture Lecture Series. The talk, titled "Toward Social Sculpture," is free and open to the public. The Architecture Lecture Series is sponsored by the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. Established in 1993, Project Row Houses is an arts and cultural community located in a historically significant inner-city neighborhood in Houston's Third Ward. Encompassing 22 now-renovated shotgun houses, the project is inspired by the work of African-American artist John Biggers — whose paintings celebrated the shotgun house — and combines aspects of neighborhood revitalization, low-income housing, education, historic preservation and community service.
At 30, Symphony Space Is in Fine Form
And when the curtain call came, they all returned to the stage. The staff's pride in the institution was evident at intermission, when a dozen employees walked up and down the aisles passing out glasses of Champagne to members of the audience more than 900 people. The co-founders of Symphony Space, Isaiah Sheffer and Allan Miller, then led a triumphant toast, acknowledging its executive director, Cynthia Elliott, and lifers on the staff, such as the education director, Madeline Cohen. The audience roared and clapped all evening. The "Selected Shorts," in which actors read short stories, were some of the best in the show. It's no wonder this series has become a nationally distributed public radio show. Roy Blount Jr. told of the wardrobe he once chose for hosting a "Selected Shorts" evening six different pairs of shorts.
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