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...effect has a storied pedigree: similar reports dogged Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim museum in New York City. Spokeswoman Andrea Fulton says the museum has received only eight written complaints, but concedes "walls that aren't at 90 angles do present a different sort of spatial experience...
...Vortexx chandelier by Zaha Hadid Architects for Sawaya & Moroni casts "an endless ribbon of light," according to its designers. Sci-fi fans might think it resembles something out of the movie Tron. And you can check out more of the Iraqi-born, London-based Hadid's work at her Guggenheim retrospective, in New York City until Oct. 25. www.sawayamoroni.it...
...challenge. To protect the art, most museums keep windows to a minimum, which eliminates one of the main tools for making surfaces come alive. So for the exterior of the Denver museum, Libeskind chose more than 9,000 panels of titanium, the same material that covers Gehry's celebrated Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. It's a metal with a soft, refulgent glow and a variety of personalities. Gehry's titanium has a slightly golden cast. Libeskind's shifts from gray to silver and even to a peachy ocher, depending on the time of day and quality of the light...
...design as powerful as this can be a problem as a setting for art. The big question hanging over Libeskind's irregular galleries is whether they will overwhelm the art--the eternal accusation against the mighty rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan. As it turns out, for a good deal of modern and contemporary art, Libeskind's careening lines provide a perfect force field, a reminder of the dynamic rethinking of space that was behind so much of modern art to begin with. Naturally, Cubist work looks right at home here. Likewise the angular channels...
...been there for many centuries, and a man’s world...a conservative white man’s world,” she says.Valentine has since published 10 books of free-verse poetry and has been honored with nearly a dozen writing awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Her latest book, “Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems,” won the 2004 National Book Award Prize in Poetry.With nearly 40 years of teaching experience, Valentine now leads courses at Sarah Lawrence, New York University...