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Gardner Wander: The New, the Old, the Glass Bottleneck in Between (Video)

Lee Rosenbaum | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Art, Sebastian Smee, Renzo Piano, Anne Hawley, Museums, Video, Arts News

Come join me now for an inside look at the two different worlds of the Gardner -- the new pavilion and the old palace.

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Hey GQ I Guess Stereotypes Die Hard, Wicked Hard

Greg Selkoe | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: La, Boston, Clothing, New York, Renzo Piano, John B. Thompson, Norman Foster, Print, Architecture, Trends, Retail, Media, Los Angeles, New York City, Culture, Gq, Style, Chicago, Media Criticism, Diller + Scofidio, Fashion, Cities, Urban Planning, Art, Museums, Ben Affleck, Style News

An Open Letter to GQ Dear GQ, Thank you for awarding Boston the distinction of worst dressed US city as part of your comedy issue this month. We her...

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Whitney Museum Starts Construction On Massive Downtown Home

Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Video, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Renzo Piano, New York Real Estate, Meatpacking District, NY Around Town, New York Around Town, NY Real Estate, Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum, New York News

After years of scrapped expansion plans, the demolition of an historic pumping station and veal warehouse, and most recently, a swanky celebrity gala-...

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Met Museum To Take Over Whitney Museum's Space

AP | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Manhattan, Whitney Museum of American Art, Met Museum, Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Madison Avenue, New York City, Museums, Renzo Piano, Marcel Breuer, Real Estate, Whitney Museum, NY Real Estate, NY Culture, Arts News

NEW YORK — New York's Whitney Museum of American Art plans to give up its Madison Avenue building to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But offici...

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Pritzker Prize Winner Announced

AP | By JACOB ADELMAN | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Tadao Ando, Nobel Prize, Braga, Renzo Piano, Souto De Moura, Frank Gehry, Soccer, Architecture, Design, Architects, Harvard, Europe, University of Oporto, Portugal, Pritzker Prize, Arts News

LOS ANGELES -- Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, whose buildings are praised for their careful use of natural materials and their unexpecte...

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Ray Stark's Exciting Restaurant Opens at LACMA

Jay Weston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wendy Stark, Kris Morningstar, Lacma, Renzo Piano, Ray Stark, Patina, Los Angeles News

Ray Stark would love the food at the new Renzo Piano-designed Ray's Restaurant & Stark Bar. The Mediterranean-inspired menu is a very exciting mix of the traditional and yes, the unusual.

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A First Look: Ray's And Stark Bar At LACMA (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lacma, Kris Morningstar, LA Restaurants, Ray's and Stark, Renzo Piano, Ray Stark, Michel Dozois, Michael Govan, Wendy Stark Morrissey, Slidepollajax, Los Angeles News

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is getting ready to welcome the public to Ray's Restaurant And Stark Bar (or Ray's And Stark). Gifted by ...

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Whitney 'Downtown' Museum Plans Revealed (PICTURES)

The Huffington Post | Grace Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renzo Piano, NY Culture, Nyc Culture, New Whitney Museum, High Line, New York News, High Line Park, Whitney Museum, New York News

The Whitney Museum of American Art has revealed plans for its new downtown museum, set to break ground on May 24th, 2011. The 200,000-square-foot bui...

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"Live-by-Design" Wholeheartedly

Alla Kazovsky | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Architecture, Tjibaou Cultural Center in Noumea, Dr. Brene Brown, Renzo Piano, Ph. D., Creativity Coaching, Healthy Living News

I just came across a video recording of a talk by Dr. Brene Brown, Ph. D., a social worker-researcher-author, exploring the meaning of vulnerability. ...

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Witold Rybczynski's Compelling Makeshift World

Guy Horton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mashie Safdie, Architecture, Allan Greenber, Architectural Criticism, Renzo Piano, Urbanism, Arts News

The prolific architectural critic and urbanist says, "I'm interested in buildings as places, rather than as artifacts. I have no interest in introducing readers to 'good design.'"

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Big Day at LACMA

Peter Clothier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Art Exhibits, Resnick Pavilion, Los Angeles Art, Art, Lacma, Renzo Piano, LA Culture, Robert Irwin, Arts News

"Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico" features masterworks from roughly 1400 to 400 BC, allowing us the opportunity to experience human history through the objects that people made and left behind.

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Art Behaving Badly

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tadao Ando, Art, Resnick Pavillion, Paul McCarthy, Renzo Piano, Resnick Collection, Edward Goldman, Hammer Museum, Eva Hess, Lacma, L, Arts News

To say that the Los Angeles art season started on a high note this fall doesn't even begin to describe the excitement generated last weekend by numerous openings. Did all that contribute to the 100º-plus heat?

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Tolerant Squares

Bill Lasarow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stewart Resnick, Miracle Mile, Lacma, A.W. Ross, Renzo Piano, Resnick Paviliion, Michael Goven, Lynda Resnick, Olmec, Arts News

Phase two of three in the remake of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art campus evinced talk of squares from among the museum principals who have moved and shook the western end of the Miracle Mile.

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THE SKINNY: LACMA Resnick Gala Avant-Garde After Party

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Resnick Pavilion, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, After-Party, Renzo Piano, Architecture, Lynda Resnick, Textiles, Lacma, Slidefullscreen, Costume Collection, Los-Angeles-Culture, LA Culture, Arts News

WHAT: LACMA Resnick Gala Avant-Garde After Party WHO: LACMA's Avant-Garde Members, After Party Co-Chairs and Host Committee, Jessica de Ruiter and Je...

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HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: From The Future Of Digital Art To The Apocalypse

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Costumes, Apocalypse, Films, Renzo Piano, Helen-Korpak, Curators, Artists, Finland, Lacma, Artist-Interview, Art Exhibitions, Digital Art, Movies, Arts News

EMERGING ARTIST SHOWCASE... Helen Korpak "A current student at Aalto University, Korpak says of her work that she has created "a map of the emotions i...

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THE SKINNY: LACMA Celebrates New Pavilion And Growing Costume Collection

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Costumes, Slideshow, Resnick Pavilion, Michael Milken, Renzo Piano, Museums, Architecture, Lacma, Textiles, Art Exhibitions, Arts News

WHO: Host committee includes Shelli Azoff, Eva Chow, David Geffen, Carole Bayer Sager, Michael Milken, and Jane Nathanson. WHAT: LACMA's Resnick Pav...

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Aguilera Lends Her Voice To Support The Arts

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Christina Aguilera, Lacma, Stewart Resnick Pavilion, Renzo Piano, Gala Fundraiser, Impact News

LOS ANGELES — Christina Aguilera is doing her part to help the arts. The Grammy-winning singer is lending her voice to a fundraiser in support ...

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LACMA Opening Resnick Pavilion!

Jay Weston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Lacma, Renzo Piano, Art Gallery, Art Exhibit, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Resnick, Los Angeles News

Feeling the need for a little more culture in my life, I drove down Wilshire Blvd. yesterday to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to view the exhibition of Thomas Eakins' sporting images.

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Culture Zohn: Life in the Koolhaas

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rem Koolhaas, Helene Lemoine, Herzog and De Meuron, Richard Meieir, Louise Lemoine, Renzo Piano, Ila Beka, SF Moma, Hammer Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Jean-Francois Lemoine, Bordeaux, Frank Gehry, Arts News

We all cherish our homes as the spaces in which we can relax and be ourselves. But what if your self is suddenly and irrevocably altered? Do you adjust to the house or the other way around?

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Creative Juices Peaking After Decades of Work Share

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: La, Walter De Maria, Resnick Pavilion, Renzo Piano, Architects, Edward Goldman, Artists, Art, John Baldessari, Los Angeles, LA County Museum of Art, Pure Beauty, Frank Gehry, Art Talk, Arts News

Who among the older living artists can you think of as bravely defying their age and continuing to deliver surprises well into their 70's and 80's? I cannot think of a better example than John Baldessari.

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Off the C(H)uff: Zaha Hadid and Her MAXXI Museum in Rome

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: MAXXI Museum, Fondazione Ferragamo, Renzo Piano, Rome, Zaha Hadid, William Klein, Architecture, Rem Koolhaus, Ferragamo Foundation, Philip Guston, Gagosian Gallery, Borghese Gardens, Pritzker Prize, Architectural Association, Garbo, Arts News

An interview with the starchitecta tells of her work, her life and how to get it done.

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Whitney Museum's Downtown High Line Design By Renzo Piano

nytimes.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whitney Museum High Line, Whitney Museum Downtown, High Line, Whitney Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Renzo Piano, Whitney Museum, The Whitney Museum, New York News

As expansion efforts go, the Whitney Museum of American Art's record of futility is hard to match. Over 25 years it commissioned six expansion designs...

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BLOG WATCH: Fine Arts LA

fineartsla.com | Joshua Morrison | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walter De Maria, Resnick Pavilion, Lacma, Renzo Piano, Arts News

Along with many other lucky visitors last week, I got a chance to see the inside of the brand new, as yet un-opened Resnick Pavilion, the latest addit...

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Whitney Museum Board Approves New Renzo Piano-Designed Building

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leonard Lauder, Whitney Museum, Marcel Breuer Building, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Renzo Piano, Whitney Building Downtown, New York News

NEW YORK — The Whitney Museum of American Art will break ground on a new museum in downtown Manhattan in 2011. The museum's board on Tuesday ni...

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The Art of the Steal: Betraying Dr. Albert Barnes and Future Generations

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lincoln University, Renoir, Renzo Piano, The Wallace Collection, Mrs Milton W. Harrison, Philedelphia, The-Art-of-the-Steal, Central Park, Cleveland-Museum-of-Art, London, Matisse, Edward G. Rendell, Philanthropy, The Barnes Foundation, Mannerist, Paul Cret, Gertrude Stein, Walter Annenberg, Armory-Show, August Wilson, Monet, Great Depression, Boston, Akron Ohio, Picasso, Painting, Van Gogh, Degas, The-Frick-Collection, Robert Venturi, Modigliani, The-Cloisters, Henry Clay Frick, Newyork, Fenway Court, Stan Hywet Hall, Cleveland, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Frank A. Seiberling, Olmstead Brothers, New York Times, George Gray Barnard, Richard Glanton, Pew Charitable Trusts, John F. Street, Art Collectors, Cézanne, Manet, Modernist, Post-Impressionist, Titian, Rafel Vinoly, Isabela Stewart Gardner, William-Glackens, Style News

Celebrated among aesthetes, the Barnes Foundation comprises a private collection groaning with manifold treasures among which are found African sculptures, Asian prints and Native American ceramics.

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