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Article: Previews: three times a year Artforum looks ahead to the coming season. The following survey previews fifty shows opening around the world between May and August.(Calendar)
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- May 1, 2008
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Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
June 26-September 21
Curated by Michael Hays and Dana Miller
The atomic age is fading on its grainy analog newsreels, so it's high time for the twenty-first century to place Buckminster Fuller in a romantically tinted retrospective. He's quite an appealing figure, the space-age Thoreau, puffing like a summer breeze through the cold war.
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Until his thirties, Fuller was a gabby, overbright college dropout, a sometime meatpacker and sheet-metal worker with a Yankee tinker's streak. Then bankruptcy and the death of a child ...