Louvre Attendance Is Coming Back, Cave Art Markings Decoded, and More: Morning Links for January 6, 2023
Here's what we're reading this morning.
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro
The Shed’s Fetish for Immediate Experience Ignores the Reality of Contemporary Rituals
Conceived for the impossible task of serving as an alibi, if not an apology, for the $25-billion development at New York's Hudson Yards, the Shed, the 200,000-square-foot nonprofit art space that…
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Lifestyle Council: Here Comes the Shed, New York’s New $500 M. Arts Center
It's a "platform" and a "uniquely adaptable building" inspired by a "Fun Palace," but what exactly does it aim to do? And will it succeed?
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Walk This Way: An Opera on the High Line
Was it an extravagant free public artwork, mounted in a city park as a gift to the people? Or a very expensive billboard, a glowing arrow pointing at a big new real-estate development?
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MoMA Unveils Final Design for Revamped Galleries and Expansion Plans
“There’s a tendency to see the museum collection as frozen in time, and it isn’t,” Glenn Lowry, the Museum of Modern Art’s director, told members of the press this morning while unveiling…
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“Architecture of Life”
The question of what a particular museum aims to be is, today, so often preceded by the question of who’s behind its design. The recent construction boom among major American art institutions has resu…
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Berkeley Art Museum Announces Series of Mural Commissions for New Project Space
As part of a major redesign courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, in Berkeley, California, will also unveil a 60-by-25-foot project space devoted
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Both a Buyer and Lender Be: Eli Broad on His Personal Collection and New Museum
A collector with an eye to the future
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This Old House: Cooper Hewitt Museum Reopens
On December 12, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum on New York’s Museum Mile will reopen after a three-year renovation of its home in Andrew Carnegie’s former mansion, restoring…
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro Unveils Design for $85 M. Stanford Art and Art History Building
Next fall Stanford University will add a new building designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the interdisciplinary design studio based out of New York, that will house its department of art and art…
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RobbReport
Inside the Collection Paris, a Members-Only Supercar Sanctuary in the City of Lights
WWD
The Pyramids of Giza Are the Stars of Dior’s New Menswear Campaign
Dirt
Frank Lloyd Wright’s One-of-a-Kind Circular Sun House Lists in Arizona
Sportico
Even a Commanders Sale Won’t End Snyder’s Legal Woes
SPY