News from The Buffalo News - 05/29/2010
Rome museum aims at avant-garde
ROME -- A huge museum for contemporary arts and architecture opens in Rome this weekend in a bid to draw avant-garde art lovers to a city defined by its ancient monuments and Baroque fountains.
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News from Architectural Record - 05/28/2010
Piano Conceives a Respectful Addition to Kahn's Kimbell Masterpiece
The Kimbell Art Museum expansion project is finally moving forward.
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News from Arts Journal - 05/28/2010
Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture
I've poured over the materials sent by the Kimbell Art Museum on its new expansion, designed, as you probably know by now, by Renzo Piano. The accolades have come in already, but -- truth to tell -- from the drawings in the press packet, I can't tell what this wing will really look like.
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News from Evening Standard - 05/28/2010
Markets & Analysis
Architect Renzo Piano's large and brightly coloured new building in London can be clearly seen from the window seat of your flight into Heathrow, lying as it does to the east of Centrepoint at St Giles Circus.
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News from Times of Malta - 05/28/2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Structure is both hilarious and offensive - Bill Turner, Lincoln, UK Having spent the latest of many very enjoyable holidays in Malta, my wife and I were taken back to the airport by our very good friends from...
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News from New York Times - 05/28/2010
36 Hours in Genoa, Italy
Diners at Mua enjoy an aperitivo. TELL people you’re planning to spend part of your Italian vacation in Genoa , and you’ll most likely get an incredulous “Why?” Until a few years ago, Genoa was far more grit than glamour — a way station to more fabulous places like Cinque Terre.
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News from Art Daily - 05/27/2010
Kimbell Art Museum Unveils Final Design by Renzo Piano for New Building
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. South view of the building design, 2010. Renzo Piano, architect © Renzo Piano Building Workshop. FORT WORTH, TX.-
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News from Art Daily - 05/27/2010
Contemporary Art Museum Designed by Iraqi-Born Architect Zaha Hadid Opens in Rome
A creation of Italian sculptor Gino De Dominis is seen at the Maxxi, Italy's first national museum of contemporary art designed by Zaha Hadid, in Rome May 27,2010. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini.
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News from BusinessWeek - 05/27/2010
Navigating Art Basel
An insider's guide to the must-see shows and hippest spots so you can do this year's fair like an art-world savant
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News from BusinessWeek - 05/27/2010
Art Basel
How to do the must-see shows and the hippest spots like an art-world savant
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News from Malta Today - 05/27/2010
Theatre practitioners united by Opera House
Veteran actor and theatre director Edward Mercieca, who runs Stagecoach and FM Theatre, was elected President of the newly-formed Association of Performing Arts Practitioners (Malta) at its first general meeting last Sunday at the St James Centre for Creativity in Valletta.
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News from World Leisure News - 05/27/2010
Whitney Museum to construct new building
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York is to construct a new museum building in downtown Manhattan, with work commencing in May 2011.
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News from Fort Worth Business Press - 05/27/2010
Kimbell unveils expansion designs $125 million project set to open in 2013
Rendering of south elevation of expansion. Courtesy of Kimbell Art Museum The long-awaited final design for the $125 million Kimbell Art Museum expansion was unveiled May 26 with plans to open in 2013.
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News from AP via Yahoo! News - 05/27/2010
Contemporary art museum to open in Rome
A huge museum for contemporary arts and architecture opens in Rome this weekend in a bid to draw avant-garde art lovers to a city defined by its ancient monuments and Baroque fountains.
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News from Fox News - 05/27/2010
New contemporary art and architecture museum to open in Rome
ROME (AP) — A huge museum for contemporary arts and architecture opens in Rome this weekend in a bid to draw avant-garde art lovers to a city defined by its ancient monuments and Baroque f...
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News from Dallas Morning News - 05/27/2010
Kimbell Art Museum's new pavilion to echo its celebrated home
Adding to a landmark building is one of an architect's touchiest challenges.
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News from Arts Journal - 05/27/2010
Renzo Piano Unveils Design For Kimbell Art Museum Addition
"It's fair to ask if Renzo Piano was fully sane when he agreed to design the addition to Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum. … Mr. Piano is likely to be vilified by both architecture fans and art world purists no matter what he comes up with.
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News from Fort Worth Star-Telegram - 05/27/2010
Kimbell addition aims to preserve Fort Worth museum's open space
The $125 million expansion of the Kimbell Art Museum by Italian architect Renzo Piano offers something of an olive branch to critics: The design being formally unveiled today preserves the integrity of the Louis Kahn original while limiting encroachment onto the sweeping west lawn.
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News from Art Daily - 05/26/2010
Whitney to Break Ground on New Downtown Building in 2011
Rendering of the new building. Image courtesy of Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Cooper, Robertson & Partners. NEW YORK, NY.- In an historic decision for the Whitney Museum of American Art , the Board of Trustees has voted unanimously to break ground on a new museum building in downtown Manhattan in May 2011. Located in the Meatpacking District on Gansevoort Street between ...
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News from Arts Journal - 05/26/2010
Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
Just a day after the Whitney Museum's board green lighted its planned new Renzo Piano -designed facility in New York's Meatpacking District, the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, has released details of its final design for its own Renzo Piano expansion---quite a bit more fleshed out than the green doodle above, which the architect had rapidly sketched for me when I had asked him about his Kimbell ...
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