Word: beaubourg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beaubourg and Boulez show off a bold new concert hall...
Music came late in the plans for the Pompidou, better known as the Beaubourg for the Paris locale where it looms. But when the French government decided in 1972 to enter the field of music research, it moved boldly to dominate it. In the U.S. there are a number of centers for computer music, with Stanford the dominant one. In Europe, Germany has been a focus for innovation ever since the postwar years, when Darmstadt became an explosive forum for young composers. IRCAM clearly means to be the new Darmstadt: it has the facilities provided by a huge 59.2 million...
...visual meaning turns on the idea of established excellence. It is less a "proposition" than a calm, final statement. In that respect, it is unlike the only comparable museum (in terms of cost, elaboration and civic importance) to have been built in recent years, the Pompidou Center in the Beaubourg section of Paris. "Le Pompidoglio," as the French sardonically call it, turned out to be one of those populist-utopian fantasies of the '60s that have not yet been made to work. As a public meeting place, it certainly succeeds. Half Paris has taken to riding up and down...
...East Building, designed by I.M. Pei. When it is finally opened to the public on June 1, it will take its place among the great museum buildings of the past hundred years. It is not an innovative or deliberately spectacular structure, as the still debated Centre Beaubourg in Paris turned out to be. Down to the last miter in its warm Tennessee marble cladding, the East Building is intended to be an authoritative, if not exactly authoritarian, statement: balanced, lucid, reflecting the inherently conservative nature of the National Gallery's self-image. The East Building and its concourse (which...
There are many more headaches in store for the center's staff of 1,000 and for the government. The operating budget for Beaubourg's first year has had to be cut from a staggering $26.5 million to a staggering $24 million-still more than is granted all together to 30 other national museums in France. That has already curbed some of Beaubourg's plans for acquisition and forced a one-day-a-week closing. The biggest challenge, though, is one stated by Guy Metraux, a UNESCO official who edits the review Cultures: "The trouble with cultural...