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As part of the newly reopened Denver Art Museum renovation project, OMA has transformed the design galleries of the iconic Martin Building in order to better display, exhibit, and communicate the museum’s robust holdings in architecture and design. The remade space features two new... View full entry
The wait is over at one of the most important synoptic collections in the western U.S. As part of a 50th-anniversary celebration of its iconic Gio Ponti building, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) will officially reopen on Sunday following a four-year $150 million facelift and campus expansion by... View full entry
Exactly a year before its opening, the new Morphosis-designed Orange County Museum of Art is sharing images and a construction update for the project that first broke ground in September of 2019. Image © Aleksey Kondratyev/Clark Construction The $93 million addition to Costa Mesa’s... View full entry
A year after we last checked, a trio of tower cranes has risen at the former site of LACMA's lost William Pereira- and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer-designed buildings, showing the most visible signs of progress on a controversial $750-million remodel of the Mid-Wilshire campus. — Urbanize Los Angeles
The heavily criticized Peter Zumthor-designed project is expected to be completed in 2024. Urbanize Los Angeles highlights a report that cites internal emails between Los Angeles County officials warning that the final cost of the project could rise to as high as $900 million. This coupled with... View full entry
Frank Gehry has met with Emirati leader Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed in the UAE as the planned Guggenheim Abu Dhabi has announced yet another amended opening date for the second time in as many weeks, according to a press release. The museum will now open in 2025, a year earlier than was... View full entry
As part of an institutional pivot that will take the combination art and history museum in a new direction, Calgary’s Glenbow Museum has officially closed its doors ahead of a three-year-long renovation project meant to reinterpret the 55-year-old museum’s image and impact on the local... View full entry
One of Germany’s premier collections of modern art is now reopened in the city of Duisburg thanks to an expansion project from Herzog & de Meuron. Featuring an additional 2,500 square meters (26,900 square feet) of exhibition and gallery space, the firm expanded on its original 1999 reworking of... View full entry
One of America’s most influential private art museums is moving forward with an expansion into new territory thanks to a partnership with Beyer Blinder Belle. Image courtesy Beyer Blinder Belle Nearly two years after opening its new 100,000-square-foot Selldorf Architects-designed space in... View full entry
The long-awaited Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will open in five years, said the institution’s director Richard Armstrong at a press briefing held today in Basel. — The Art Newspaper
One of Frank Gehry’s most-anticipated projects to date, the $200 million Guggenheim Abu Dhabi satellite museum, has been pushed back numerous times over the years after being originally announced by Armstrong’s predecessor in July of 2006. Armstrong’s tenure has been permeated by... View full entry
An opening date has been set for the long-anticipated M+ Museum in Hong Kong after years of delays. The $750 million project from Herzog & de Meuron is being heralded as Asia’s largest and most significant center for contemporary visual art and was seen as the centerpiece of Hong Kong’s West... View full entry
The latest addition to South America’s burgeoning contemporary art scene is almost set for its debut after a two-year-long construction process that will give the continent what is likely to be its first artist-designed museum in the form of the new Museo Arte Contemporaneo Atchugarry (MACA)... View full entry
Do leopards change their spots? One only has to look at the command structure of the Taliban and their supporters to feel that there won’t be much of a change from 2001—and it might well be worse. [...]
Much of the archaeological landscape has simply gone. Many of the Buddhist monuments were dynamited in 2001, partly in search of portable antiquities to loot.
— The Art Newspaper
Some of Afghanistan's museums had reportedly begun preparations months ago, others are at a loss as fear and paranoia grips what remains of civil society after a 20-year occupation. The city of Herat poses a special risk as its educational heritage and historic citadel have led some to the... View full entry
Snøhetta has unveiled a new extension and landscape design for the Ordrupgaard Museum in Denmark. Originally built as a three-winged, neo-classical country mansion during World War I, the museum was expanded by a modern glass and black lava concrete extension in 2005, designed by Zaha... View full entry
New renderings of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Woods Bagot's forthcoming Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre (AACC) have been released following a consultation by the Aboriginal Reference Group (ARG) that updated an original plan released by the firm earlier this year. The improved scheme was... View full entry
Groundbreaking has commenced for a new art gallery on the campus of Wesleyan University, adding new cultural facilities to the Connecticut liberal arts institution for the first time since the mid-70s in an expansion of the university’s existing Art Center designed by Pritzker Prize laureate... View full entry