Will Holder will operate the Whitney Museum elevator tomorrow, Saturday 15 March 2008 from 11 am to 6 pm

[open-reading-group at o-r-g.com]

For Gropius and his goal of an integrated architectonic vision, the 
predominance of the Expressionist element in the Bauhaus faculty was a 
negative factor, and in 1923 he decided to draw stronger Constructivist 
forces into the orbit of the school. Paul Citroen, a student of that time, 
described the divided feelings:

"None of us who had suggested Moholy, liked his Constructivism. This 
'Russian' trend, created outside the Bauhaus, with its exact simulatively 
technical forms was disgusting to us who were devoted to the extremes of 
German Expressionism. But since constructivism was the newest of the new, 
it was -- so we figured -- the cleverest move to overcome our aversion 
and, by supporting Gropius' choice of one of its creators, incorporate 
this 'newest' into the Bauhaus system. We were conscious of the danger of 
drawing into the inner circle the representative of an art form we 
basically negated. But it was only an experiment, something easily to be 
undone since Moholy was very young, and most probably inexperienced. So 
Moholy came to Weimar as 'the champion of youth,' as we labeled him in 
contrast to the 'old' faculty members Kandinsky, Feininger, and Klee, who 
were between forty and fifty-five."

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AS PART OF DEXTER SINISTER TRUE MIRROR FOR THE 2008 WHITNEY BIENNIAL, WILL 
HOLDER WILL BE RELEASING AND RECITING A TEXT WHILE OPERATING THE MUSEUM 
ELEVATOR ALL DAY, SATURDAY 15 MARCH 2008 FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM.

PLEASE ALSO REFER TO THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE HERE:
http://www.sinisterdexter.org/index.html?id=21