Word: aulenti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...given period, it has no equal. One is used to museums that get things three-quarters right and implore the visitor to be sanguine about their unrealized hopes. None of that is needed at Orsay. On every level, starting with the creative intelligence its designer, the Italian architect Gae Aulenti, has brought to the hard task of converting a dead station into a live museum and finishing with the range and stature of its collections, the museum is exemplary. It shows what state patronage can do. Nothing the private sector could summon up, in or out of France, could possibly...
...Orsay had its architect, and the choice held its own cultural significance. Not only would Orsay be directed by a woman, but it would be designed by one: Gae Aulenti. In the U.S., where no woman architect has ever had such a commission and only one major museum (the Philadelphia Museum of Art) has a woman director, this would have been seen as a major feminist victory. The French press hardly commented on it: a real meritocracy takes sexual equality for granted...
...Grand Canal. Titled "Futurismo & Futurismi" ("Futurism and Its Offshoots," more or less), the exhibition marks the opening of the Societa per Azioni Palazzo Grassi (Grassi Palace Society for Actions), housed in an 18th century structure whose restoration and conversion was brilliantly carried out by the Milanese architect Gae Aulenti. The new museum, lavishly funded by Fiat, is run by Pontus Hulten, former director of the Pompidou Center in Paris...