initially, her design evoked storms of protest because it was considered unheroic.malism ultimately evoke similar feelings of ambivalence and loss. ♪ god shed his grace on thee ♪ ♪ and crown thy good ♪ with brotherhood ♪ from sea to shining sea! ♪ this is storm king art park in upstate new york. by the seventies, massive abstract works like these had become the blue-chip staple of corporate collectors in america. 50 years ago, the german critic walter benjamin prophesied that the impact of film and mass reproduction would change forever our idea of what art is. as we come towards the end of this century, we're nearer that point than ever before. since the sixties particularly, many people have felt that western art is in a state of crisis, with no pattern or direction, that the western tradition is played out. abstraction lost its shock value and became ordinary. the new directions suggested by pop and minimalism seemed to many to be a dissolution of all tradition. at the heart of all this perhaps lies the belief that the myth of progress, which has sustained the we

at his postmodern audience, a public fully aware of the ironies of reciting the heroic past in an unheroic age. here julia paolini presents art looking at art-- two replicas of the most famous of greek sculptures, the venus de milo, mirror each other. beauty studies beauty in order to develop. the palais royal in paris is an 18th-century building that houses part of the french administration. daniel buren was asked to make a sculpture for its courtyard that would complete this glorious architectural monument. what he chose to do was to complete it as a ruin, turning the idea of the colonnaded paris style into the stunted columns from an antique acropolis felled by time. before this work was installed, de plateau was blocked by a court injunction. buren's work became the subject of a memorable cultural battle as only the french can wage. the conservative newspaper of paris roared its disapproval, calling the work cultural hooliganism. ultimately people were attracted to the new landmark as a congenial place to be. a moving example of postmodern architecture is this museum in moenchen gladba

cultural resistance to being destroyed morally spiritually as well as physically for astonishing unheroic. the one point, ringo berman has fran know they are not going to survive, not least is there going to be part of the rebellion in the ghetto that breaks out in april 1943. so they start to have the records in the hoisin, the apartment block committees and buried them. it is an incredibly moving mother britain, saying if only he would be alive today than uptrends are brought out and broken open. it's almost like the dead sea scrolls, isn't it? these records are what actually happened in the ghetto to see the light of day. he knows. these are secular jews. there were rabbis among them. that he knows he would done his duty by the commandment. are there any religion where we are commanded and should not in the bobble, the exodus and again in deuteronomy to remember is a fundamental duty of jews to pass on this story two generations. this is that the people wanted to do. amazingly, one of them didn't survive. the goldblum and, all of them perished in the flames. but one fellow jumping off