A Museum’s New Light: Renzo Piano Communes With Louis Kahn
The roof of the Renzo Piano Pavilion at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth (all photographs by…
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Weekend Words: Risk
Caravaggio, “The Cardsharps” (c. 1596). Oil on canvas, 92 x 129 cm. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.…
Weekend Words: Gamble
Caravaggio, “The Cardsharps” (c. 1596). Oil on canvas, 92 x 129 cm. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.…
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas has acquired the Pierre Bonnard painting “Landscape at Le Cannet” (1928) from the Wildenstein Gallery. This is the first work by Bonnard to enter the museum’s collection and depicts the artist’s villa near Cannes, France. The acquisition, according to the press release, is in honor of Kay Forston, the Kimbell Art Foundation’s president from 1975 through 2017. The painting will be on view starting tomorrow, August 31, in the museum’s Louis I. Kahn Building. [via email announcement]
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(via Architecture for Humanity at the New Aspen Art Museum)
ASPEN, Colorado — Despite its reputation as a resort town for the 1%, the heart of Aspen looks much like a classic Western American town, with low brick buildings and charming squares perfect for people watching. Some of the trappings of wealth — like Prada and Gucci stores and the prevalence of private jets on the airport’s runways — make clear at least one of the demographics of the town, but it’s also home of the nation’s first rural rapid transit system, and the Aspen-Snowmass area in general remains a popular destination for the middle class.
The Water Gardens of Otherworldly Modernism
Water Gardens in Fort Worth, Texas (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic)
Some Modernist…
(via Getty Foundation Announces New Grants to Conserve Modern Architecture)
This week, the first awardees in the new Keeping It Modern grant initiative from the Getty Foundation were announced for 20th-century modernist architecture that requires long-term conservation planning. From Le Corbusier’s apartment and studio in his Molitor building in Paris, to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, the ten structures all involve techniques that were innovative at the time, but aging in ways that may be detrimental to their futures.
MoMA to Preserve Folk Art Museum Façade
The copper-bronze panels constituting the façade of the American Folk Art Museum will now be…
