It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Sunday, April 26, 2015

How Much Is That Renzo Piano Fee In The Window?

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A design collaboratively put together by Art students at  CSULB 
would have achieved the same–if not better–
results than what you see below

Whitney Museum of American Art

How big is the news for supporters of the Whitney
to credit a world-famous architect for the new look?

How small and embarrassing for supporters of the Whitney
if they had to give credit to a bunch of California students?

But the biggest and most undeniably measurable news
would be for the Whitney's budget controller.
Instead of paying $10 million dollars to a five-star architect,
it would cost $10 thousand dollars for the fifth-ranked
state university art school in the United States.

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Footnotes
The actual Piano bill of cost for the re-building of the Whitney Museum  was $422 Million.

Dollar-for-dollar in the United States,  it would be impossible to find a better Art School
than what is on the campus of  California State University at Long Beach.

The AFP photograph was taken by  D. Dipasupil.
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