Lifting a bit of suspense over one of the museum world’s most controversial architecture commissions, the Barnes Foundation has chosen Tod Williams and Billie Tsien to design its new home in downtown Philadelphia. NYT
The Restorers’ Art of the Invisible
Visitors wandering through the Richard Pousette-Dart exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum seem oblivious to the scaffolding and hard hats in their midst. But for the people behind the scenes, the work unfolding within the museum’s curved white walls is as engrossing as the art displayed on them. NYT
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Oh thank god on the Barnes news!!!!!
This is the best commission news I've heard in a long time. TWBT will handle this project beautifully, I am certain.
Hooray!
BT: It’s why I’ve always felt architecture as a practice is more interesting than fine arts. You have these boundaries, you have these kinds of chains and ropes tied around you and you’re really trying to figure out that trick — where somehow or other you’re free, but you’re still tied...The stakes are bigger, the chains are bigger. So hopefully the possibilities can be bigger.
This rocks. Congrats, TWBT!
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