With the completion of a roughly 200,000-square-foot expansion, the D.C.-area institution will rank as one of the most ambitious private museums in the world.
Once upon a time, storytelling was the most ambitious mission of painting. Panel by panel, Renaissance artists told the lives of Christ and the saints on the walls of churches. Michelangelo presented
New York's Metropolitan Museum, known for its collection of the classics, will soon mingle the old and new, bringing a celebrated sound art installation to its medieval Cloisters branch.
In the vast, dark Park Avenue Armory drill hall, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have arranged 98 speakers, each with its own soundtrack, for The Murder of Crows. Cardiff's voice recounts her…