It's all startling, space-age stuff, but with its cold bleached bones, vast scale and relentless symmetry, this Calatravan monoculture can start to feel a little alienating.
One of the most startling spaces starts at the beginning where a polychrome painting of colored netting by Claude Viallat that might be a ship's rigging plays off against another sort of netting: Ed Ruscha's 30-year black and white documentation of grim, empty LA parking lots.
A year later, the startling empty spaces symbolize what once was, but also what might be.
A startling 80% of space for shows airing from now until May is already sold.
They produced startling photography from space and conducted a bold spacewalk to pull dangling bits of cloth from the shuttle's underbelly, a procedure that the spacewalker Dr. Robinson called "the first baby step" to developing the capability for repair while in orbit.
Yet the book skates over the problems the Clinton administration faced in its rocky debut and in the impeachment crisis and skims over details of matters like Whitewater and "travelgate" while expending a startling amount of space on her trips abroad and her personal appearance.
Heaped on a forward edge of a smooth stone slab, it all seems to spill forth into the viewer's space in startling trompe-l'oeil style.
But in an odd way, all of Ms. Bailey's actors somehow feel incidental to a study in Shakespearean atmosphere that yet again pushes this largely al fresco space in startling new directions.
But at the end of January there was a heart-stopping moment, when the firm announced two startling acquisitions in the space of a few days.The first deal, worth $2.3 billion, involves Lenovo buying the part of IBM that makes low-end computer servers.
What you see before you is in fact a miniature diorama, recreating Chuck Close's work space in startling detail.
