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Outside the Citadel, Social Practice Art Is Intended to Nurture

2013-03-25T18:15:00-04:00

As the commercial art world in America rides a boom unlike any it has ever experienced, another kind of art world growing rapidly in its shadows is beginning to assert itself. And art institutions around the country are grappling with how to bring it within museum walls and make the case that it can be appreciated along with paintings, sculpture and other more tangible works.

Museum Style: Top 10 Museums

2012-08-17T12:46:00-04:00

Inspiring, educational, innovative and informative: these museum designs are world class.

‘Smooth, crystalline surfaces reflect the incoming light in varied ways, thus creating permanent optical changes throughout the day’ EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam, Delugan Meissl Associated Architects / Text by Lydia Parafianowicz

‘Its architectural form cuts a skyline silhouette that has been inspired by the very ships that were built on this hallowed ground’ Titanic Belfast by Todd Architects & CivicArts/Eric R Kuhne & Associates / Text by Lydia Parafianowicz

Spaceship Form 'Fulfills Need for Surreal Space' OCT Design Museum by Studio Pei-Zhu / Text by Silvie Schaefer

'The facade is the only visual souvenir of the former Casa del Conde' -Easter Sculpture Museum by Exit Architects / Text by Silvie Schaefer

‘My inspiration came from origami, the Japanese paper folding technique, which I united with the nature found in the surrounding Yatsugatake mountains near Nagano’ Hiroshi Senju Museum Annex by Yasui Hideo Atelier / Text by Lydia Parafia...

Something out of Nothing: Marcia Tucker, Jeffrey Deitch and the De-regulation of the Contemporary-Museum Model

2012-04-01T22:49:00-04:00

Being a successful collector or dealer does not qualify one to make substantial decisions towards our collective cultural patrimony.

art&education publishes an excellent paper by Nizan Shaked. As the title suggests, it discusses and exposes the forces and conditions behind this billion dollar industry that created by power brokers and billionaire businessman and their art advisers, museum directors and junior collector class, trail of money and more importantly, manipulating and exploiting our collective cultural patrimony.

Witnessing, critiquing dozens of naive and exploited museum design projects by architecture students, I can highly recommend an article that needs to be read and understood by all the students and their instructors while doing such projects. If anything, it will make you understand the destination of your project better and possibly change your direction and delivery.

Silence=Death.

Interview with HOK's Yann Weymouth on the Salvador Dali Museum in Florida

2011-10-31T13:04:00-04:00

Earlier this year we reported on the opening of the stunning Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida... We recently sat down with principal architect and Senior Vice President of HOK Yann Weymouth who enlightened us on the intricacies of the design, and what it took to get the museum built.

Museums hire architects but forsake past architecture

2011-05-28T16:17:02-04:00

Institutions including SFMOMA, the Whitney, the Barnes Foundation and MoMA plan various additions and exits, a boom for contemporary architects but a bust for architectural history.