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...Guggenheim Fellowship-winning, brilliantly educated and utterly well spoken art historian Linda Nochlin continues her Norton Lecture series on “Bathers, Bodies and Beauty” with another perspective into impressionism. With a critical eye, Professor Nochlin challenges the role of women in 19th century art, offering a feminist perspective. This week’s lecture, Monet’s Hôtel de la Roche Noire: Anxiety and perspective at the seashore, will use a modern eye to find this painting in the context of history. Tickets free. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
...points to the Guggenheim museum as an example of “expansionist mode” gone awry. Once the Guggenheim had solidified an international brand name for itself, it cut its staff in half, and saw substantially less growth in its endowment than other museums. By contrast, Cuno says, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago have maintained high popularity while continuing to produce research and scholarship...
...about lifting rules in place since the 1970s that limit the height of new buildings to 37 m - and as little as 18 m in some central neighborhoods. The restrictions rankle a mayor keen to nudge Paris into modernity. "Under current laws, if Frank Gehry wanted to build his Guggenheim Museum here in Paris instead of Bilbao, he wouldn't be allowed," Delanoë said at a recent public meeting in a gymnasium on the northern reaches of Paris. "Do we want a city that's immobile, conservative, one that excludes hundreds of thousands of people? That...
Under current laws, if Frank Gehry wanted to build his Guggenheim here in Paris instead of Bilbao, he wouldn't be allowed
When Lillian died in 1997, the project she had hoped would be a monument to her husband consisted of a completed underground parking lot and a disappearing dream overhead. Then Bilbao Guggenheim opened, abruptly making Gehry the most celebrated architect in the world and giving him a new level of credibility in L.A., the city he has called home since moving there from Toronto as a teenager. All of a sudden his work didn't look so crazy anymore. "Frank became this international superstar," says Esa-Pekka Salonen, the musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. "And if ever there...