Word: museum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blood infection and pneumonia; in Albuquerque, N.M. Derided by some as repetitive and uninspired, his paintings and sculptures, often of Native American women, were hugely popular in the 1970s and '80s, drawing such fans as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Andy Warhol and appearing in New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which put one of his works on the cover of a catalog for a 1973 exhibition...
...also made of shadows, glimmerings, textures and smells. This is, after all, probably the only architectural team ever to have formulated its own perfume. Called Rotterdam--O.K., these guys have no future in retail--it was produced in a tiny edition of just 1,000 bottles to accompany a museum show of their work in that Dutch city last year. Herzog, the more talkative of the pair, is quick to explain that the fragrance was not an attempt to go head to head with J. Lo. They just wanted to make a theoretical point. "We very strongly insist on architecture...
...record, the de Young Museum, Herzog and de Meuron's latest and most intricately gratifying project, which opened recently in San Francisco, smells of only one thing: an unmistakable whiff of genius. This is a building to rank with the best to appear in the U.S. in the past few years, one to give Frank Gehry ideas. A sparkling enigma, it simultaneously cuts a sharp figure and demurely withdraws behind a camouflaged surface. Behind its blunt façade, glass-walled wedges of garden emerge inside. Herzog likes to compare it all to Kim Novak in Hitchcock's Vertigo, with...
Meanwhile, the Fogg Art Museum, built in 1927 and not renovated since, is neither climate-controlled nor air-conditioned nor wheelchair accessible. In fact, the building is so grossly outdated that it can only display one to two percent of the university’s collection of artwork. I have been told by faculty members that Harvard literally must reject donations of artwork because there is nowhere to put them...
Needless to say, most of these paintings actively involve the viewer, making them more accessible and appealing for the most casual and uneducated of museum-goers. But not all of the works really fit the theme of layering, and many aren’t even visually enthralling...