For its second annual production of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf," the Guggenheim Museum in New York enlisted the Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana to dream up a suitably whimsical set.
The House Beautiful returns for a third season to the intimate, whimsical setting of the museum's Bakst Theatre, with lectures exploring historic homes that demonstrate a love of the theatrical, through the inclusion of private theaters, the idea of performance or grand theatrics in design.
The House Beautiful a series of illustrated talks by notable experts and authors in the fields of architecture, artistic design and decorative arts, presented by Johns Hopkins Evergreen Museum & Library returnss for a fifth season to the intimate, whimsical setting of the museum's Leon Bakst designed private theater, with lectures exploring the uses of nationalism in design.
"The History of the Siege of Lisbon," published in the United States last year, is a whimsical tale set in motion by the decision by a humble proofreader at a publishing house to insert the word "not" into a key passage in a standard history of Portugal.
Together, bug-eyed, wily Zucker and lanky, tomfooling Venn flirt and moue their way through an hour of whimsical set pieces.
If there has ever been a lovelier and more whimsical set of calculus lecture notes than the multicolored corpus of dashing penmanship Ghrist keeps available on his personal website, the Gazette would like to frame them.
To pay the rent, they hold dinners with circus performances and build whimsical sets for movies and Hollywood events, like a giant fake oak tree in their living area that was used as décor at the Emmy Awards last year.
This fusion of the desperate with the whimsical sets the tone.
The women's gauzy dresses in warm colors and the whimsical set design — by Beatriz Milhazes, Marcia's sister — echo this breezy mood.
You knew that those small figures, those scaled-down whimsical sets actually existed somewhere.
