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ART, ARCHITECTURE AND THE ACADEMY

Museum memories can be of two kinds. You can either remember the visit in terms of the spectacular architecture, what you bought in the museum shop, ate in the café and what the city looked like from the rooftop, the welcome relief [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

2011 was vital year in the visual arts in Northeast Ohio

Cleveland continued to show admirable vitality in all of the arts in 2011, and especially in art and architecture, despite its status as a perennially shrinking city. The biggest gauge on the city’s urban dashboard — its popul [...]

Posted On : Jan, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

The Philippines' Mind Museum Fuses Modern Architecture, Scie...

The Philippines's new Mind Museum looks downright alien amid Taguig's industrial skyscrapers. Lead architect Ed Calma wouldn't have it any other way--he knows that in an Internet age, a museum's draw has to begin before yo [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Thoroughly modern Miami: art and architecture tours

'Do you guys want soup? It's very good – vegetable. I just finished making it ..." It's not the first thing you expect to hear when meeting a cutting-edge collector of American contemporary art, but there's some [...]

Posted On : Nov, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Israeli modern art museum doubles size

TEL AVIV, Israel—Israel's main modern art museum is unveiling a striking new wing Wednesday that provides a permanent home for hundreds of works by Israeli artists, a space lacking until now.The $55 million addition, which doubl [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

MIA a ‘key part’ of IM Pei’s later work

In his address, entitled Islamic Architecture, Modernism and I M Pei: The Challenge of the Museum of Islamic Art, Goldberger examined the museum as a key component of Pei’s later work, as a major museum completed during the recent w [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-19...

In the long history of modernism, painting and architecture only very rarely came together. But the moment when they most visibly did, a little under a century ago, sparked an explosion of visual language that still looks revolutionary to [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Historic restoration blends modern technique with art and cu...

For decades, Southern California has beckoned innovative thinkers and encouraged experimentation in all things creative, from fine art and film to fashion, architecture, food and design. This year, the Pacific Standard Time festival &mdas [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Art of Architecture: Mid-century modern

The film "Mid-Century Modern Architecture in Arkansas," which focuses on post-war design, from the University of Arkansas's Fine Arts Building to the abandoned Hotel Mountainaire in Hot Springs, will be shown at 6 p.m. tonig [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Eclectic visual art of modern architecture

THIS is a beautifully illustrated coffee-table book with a strange title but which explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. A professor of architecture and urban design at the University [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Landscape Architects Descend On Hartford's Bushnell Plaza Wi...

As downtown workers line up at food carts and bustle around the Old State House at lunchtime on a summer day, just down Main Street at Bushnell Plaza there is rarely a reason to stop. A large, concrete wall runs along the sidewalk for doz [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Artist Liz Glynn digs through rubble of history, modern time...

Liz Glynn's studio, on the second floor of a mildly shabby Chinatown office complex, is modest in size and extremely cluttered. Shelves are crammed with boxes and bins; tables are loaded with books, piles of snapshots, and odds and en [...]

Posted On : Aug, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Art: Cincinnati Modern Architecture-- A Retrospective

If you automatically think historic architecture must be 19th century or earlier, think again. At the Betts House, itself built in 1804, the exhibition Cincinnati Modern Architecture – A Retrospective opens Saturday to run through S [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Snohetta Defends Its Controversial Design For SF's Museum of...

Snøhetta, the Viking architects of the World Trade Center pavilion and one of our 2011 Most Innovative Companies, unveiled embryonic plans for a hotly anticipated extension to SFMOMA last week and, as these things go, reactions wer [...]