On the morning of July 14, correctional officers, advocates, and lawyers filled an auditorium in lower Manhattan for Richards's second meeting as a member of the Board of Correction.
Parreno is the first artist ever to fill the whole building, from the steps outside where one of his marquees hangs over the entrance, through the large open spaces beyond the ticketing desk, down stairwells and into the concrete under-crofts, the multi-level lower floors and basement auditoriums of this enormous place.
He got the missionary idea of bringing free Shakespeare to the public 4 years ago, & rented an auditorium in a lower East Side church.
A 300-seat auditorium and a lower-level exhibition space may not be finished before the fall.
It began late, even though the show starts with a darkened auditorium and a lowered curtain while a lengthy jazz recording (Kenny Garrett's "Calling," apparently) played for five or ten minutes.
On the lower level of the two-story auditorium space hangs a watercolor by the figurative painter Eric Fischl, as well as a wall hanging by Hank Willis Thomas, a collage crafted out of prison stripes.
That meant taking into consideration the two lower floors, which will eventually include an auditorium, a library, lounges and space for the chapter's dozens of architecture-related events.
When built 112 years ago, the building had a lower-level stage intended as a 1,200-seat 1,200-seat.
Four drummers pummeled out percussion riffs from the lower balcony, two on each side of the auditorium.
In some student plans the auditorium was on the building's lower floors, while on others it was high up.
