“Now the museum is again risking the public’s wrath as it introduces the most radical architectural intervention since [I.M. Pei’s] pyramid in 1989. Designed to house new galleries for Islamic art, it consists of ground- and lower-ground-level interior spaces topped by a golden, undulating roof that seems to float within the neo-Classical Visconti Courtyard in the middle of the Louvre’s south wing.”
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Pedro E. Guerrero, 95, Prominent Photographer Of Art And Architecture
He spent 20 years as Frank Lloyd Wright’s exclusive photographer and captured widely influential images of the work of Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Louise Nevelson and Alexander Calder.
Louis Kahn’s Only Design For New York Is Finally Finished
“The park – a memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt – was conceived four decades ago. The visionary architect who designed it died in 1974. The site, a landfill along one of the more dramatic stretches of waterfront in New York City, remained a rubble heap while the project was left for dead.”
When Prop Masters Meet
“Melissa Erdman has a killer recipe for vomit. ‘Mixed-fruit oatmeal,’ she said.” Scenes from a gathering of about 50 “prop tarts” at the Public Theater in New York.
Could M+ Do For Hong Kong What The Opera House Did For Sydney?
“Sitting smack on the shores of a bustling harbour, in the heart of an international city, looking across the water to skyscrapers, and flanked by trees and lawns: the parallels with the Sydney Opera House are manifest. Or at least they will be. Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture hasn’t actually been built yet, or even designed.” (The competition process begins this month.)
Melbourne’s Top Concert Hall Ready After Two-Year Revamp
“With its Hollywood interiors and showpiece auditorium, Hamer Hall was the jewel in Melbourne’s cultural crown when it opened three decades ago. Now – after multimillion-dollar renovations over two years – the landmark venue reclaims its glory with a slick design that embraces the river, a four-day mini-festival of celebrations and, best of all, a much-needed acoustic overhaul.”
Philip Glass On The Occupy Movement
“We’ve haven’t seen this since the Vietnam War years – there was a whole generation playing video games when we should have been on the streets. … I think that what they’re doing is the right thing – it was right when it was the 70s, it was right in the 60s, it’s always right.”
Renaissance Bankers Of Florence, Hanging On Walls
“The recent ‘Money and Beauty’ exhibit, held in the majestic 15th-century Palazzo Strozzi, illustrated how Florentine merchants got around the Catholic Church’s ban on money-lending and bankrolled the Renaissance.”
The Banksy Of Moscow
“A Russian street artist who created a giant pair of spectacles from a streetlamp has been dubbed ‘the Russian Banksy’. The mysterious figure, known only as P183, … reveals little about himself except that his name is Pavel, he is 28 and that he studied ‘communicative design’.”
London Sees Its First Outdoor Anish Kapoor Installation
“Four Anish Kapoor sculptures, creating distortions of their surroundings, have taken up residence among the trees and waters of Kensington Gardens for six months.”