The new museum won’t be defined by architectural glamour or by a market-vetted collection, though it may have these. Structurally porous and perpetually in progress...where walls are dissolvable, access is open, and art is invited to tell us who we are as an arrogant, exclusionary but possibly teachable culture — is still awaited — NYT
15 years into the new millennium, Holland Cotter outlines the need for a new version, for the 21st century, museum. She begins by criticizing the Bilbao era, and the entities resulting from a "love of gigantism in architecture and art". Then goes on to outline the possibilities of a 21st-century institution, "Experimental — interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, self-critical, heterodox".
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Funny to say "won’t be defined by architectural glamour or by a market-vetted collection" and show the FOG + Louis Vuitton bldg on the page
Is this project in the link below by David Adjaye not on anyone's radar?? We see a fusion of commercial and culture within one project. Like the article says, it may not be THE way forward, but I feel it is definitely a unique way of bringing a broader public into proximity to high culture.
http://www.dezeen.com/2015/11/05/david-adjaye-aishti-foundation-gallery-shopping-centre-nears-completion-beirut-lebanon/
Is it too messy?
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/private-fortunes-drive-beirut-s-museum-boom/
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