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...Services building (one scheme involved a "lightbox" over the existing art deco edifice; another had it demolished and replaced with what detractors likened to a petrol station). But public support waned, and the plan was eventually scrapped. Instead, director Macgregor set about improving the existing building, turning around the museum's deficit, and widening its community outreach; for the first time this year, "Primavera" will tour the country when its Sydney season ends in November. "My philosophy has always been that a museum is much more than a building," Macgregor says. "The organization is about the relationship it builds beyond...
Spring is in the air at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art. Each September, the gallery celebrates the budding talents of the Australian art world, and this year's "Primavera" has the riotous colors of hothouse flora. Taking as its subject the painted landscape, it's a terrific show - from the airily spiritual (Pedro Wonaeamirri's totem poles) to the patently superficial (Jemima Wyman's fluoro forests). While at times dark in theme (in particular, Madeleine Kelly's ecological dreamscapes are eerily resonant of inundated New Orleans), it's enough to raise your spirits about the state of contemporary...
...Sydney's loss has been Brisbane's and Auckland's gain. Voted the most popular design of those shortlisted for the MCA was an elegantly fanned Moving Image Museum at the Harbour Bridge end of the site. Its architect, Sydney's Richard Francis-Jones, now finds himself at the helm of the Auckland redevelopment. With the original 1887 French chateau?style building overrun by storage and an unwieldy airconditioning system, Francis-Jones was faced with a similarly tricky heritage site. His solution has been to restore the existing spaces and double their area with what he calls a "hovering canopy...
...first time since the 15th century, brothers Herman, Paul and Jean Limbourg's brilliant and colorful miniature illuminations will be shown together at the Valkhof Museum in "The Limbourg Brothers, Nijmegen Masters at the French Court (1400-1416)" until Nov. 20. The exhibition shows four out of six surviving manuscripts, which the brothers illuminated while in residence at the Paris court from 1400 to 1416-the year all three died, presumably from the plague. It also places the works in the context of contemporary art, which demonstrates a conscientious interest in small details and animal anatomy, quite...
...Unfortunately, the museum couldn't have it all. Les Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame (circa 1410-12) is at Paris' Bibliothèque National and is too fragile to travel, and the brothers' most famous work, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (circa 1411-16), is at the Musèe Condè in Chantilly, near Paris; the museum is bound by contract not to lend it out. But the Valkhof show makes up for these missing pieces in a creative way: it features an animation of two scenes, February and April, from...