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'Art is the highest form of hope' - Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter, Oil Sketch No. 432/11 1977, Tate collection. https://bit.ly/2XBXRON

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Happy #NewYearsEve! New Year's Eve looks a little different this year as Times Square will be closed to the public for the first time in decades. The ...ball was first dropped in Times Square in 1907. (It weighed a hefty 700 pounds, which is nothing compared to its weight in more recent years. The ball is nearly *17 times* heavier). Since 1907, the ball has been lowered on New Year’s Eve every yearexcept in 1942 and 1943, when the ceremony was suspended due to the wartime dimout of lights during World War II. We appreciate all of you as we head into 2021. We wish you a safe, healthy, and happy New Year. New Year's Eve crowds in Times Square, ca. 1907. See more

ANCIENT LIGHT Built nearly 2,000 years ago, the Pantheon is the most preserved and influential building of ancient Rome. It is a Roman temple dedicated to all t...he gods of pagan Rome. When visitors walk into the Pantheon and encounter its colossal dome with a remarkable oculus, a 27’ round hole in the center open to the sky, they experience the same monumentality and theatricality as visitors of Ancient Rome. When the Pantheon was built the only source of light was the oculus. Every day the light appears differently; on a humid day there is a shaft of light, and if there us rain through the oculus there are silver elements in the light, and as the seasons and the time of day the light projects at different angles. The architecture, both the exterior and the interior, have been have been widely imitated throughout the Western World. As the best-preserved and most architecturally sophisticated of the monumental buildings of Ancient Roman, the Pantheon has been enormously influential in Western architecture from at least the Renaissance on; starting with Brunelleschi's dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, completed in 1436. Gian Lorenzo Bernini restored the Roman Pantheon before building the church of Santa Maria Assunta 1664, in Ariccia, modeled on the Pantheon. And another notable example is Thomas Jefferson's library at the University of Virginia, The Rotunda ,1826. #pantheon #rome #ancientrome #oculus #dome #interiors #interiorspaces #interiorinspo #glenngisslerdesign #ggdnyc #interiordesignalchemy #brunelleschi #bernini #thomasjefferson #uva

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