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architecture is steeped in nostalgia” central Vermonters to visit his campus, for the state’s “pastoral past,” Broucke which features “great modernist buildsaid. Buildings of that sort serve to ings,” Sherefkin said. (Bennington dull, rather than stimulate, a viewer’s was, in fact, listed among the 10 U.S. imagination, he commented, adding, campuses with the “best architecture” “Creative ideas have to in a 2011 appraisal by Architectural Digest.) be new ideas.” Vermont isn’t enNoting that Act 250, the state’s land-use law, tirely bereft of exciting includes an aesthetcontemporary architecics criterion, Kreis ture, interjected modwarned the assembled erator Temkin, dean of Norwich University’s architects, “The public School of Architecture policy of Vermont A R O N T EM K I N and Art. It’s just that cannot afford your invisibility.” He urged these examples are invisible to most Vermonters. “Many in- them to become activists in the cause of novative buildings are private homes” in innovative design. Kreis said he also implores his readrural areas, Temkin noted. It isn’t true that the state’s institu- ers to become more conscious of their tional architecture is uniformly nostal- built surroundings. After all, they — like gic in its design, objected Bennington him — are spending their lives in and College architecture prof DONALD around buildings. SHEREFKIN. He invited northern and
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Eric Aho, Vow, 2010 (detail). Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and DC Moore Gallery, NYC
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Eric Aho Borrowing on a key idea from a 1940 essay by Wallace Stevens, Eric Aho speaks about his recent departure from painting “observed” reality in pursuit of a new construction of “reality” that aligns more closely with his physical experience of the world.
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