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...particularly of 20th century artists who had not yet become famous. Instead of keeping this art for private viewing, Hilles displayed works in her collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston—where a gallery is named in her honor—as well as the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, and galleries at Harvard, Yale and Mount Holyoke College...
...that Rem Koolhaas is the only renowned architect who also once wrote a screenplay for Russ Meyer, the director of Mondo Topless. But the Dutch architect's immersion in mass culture is part of what made him just the man to design the two latest additions to the Guggenheim Museum's global museum line, opening on Oct. 7. That's because both will be located at the Venetian hotel and casino in Las Vegas...
...projects in the U.S., will provide a "stark contrast" yet "merge completely with the casino experience." One is an exhibition space that boasts on its ceiling (which opens like shutters to admit light) a campy version of Michelangelo's Creation from the Sistine Chapel. The other museum is a Guggenheim collaboration with Russia's great Hermitage that will feature shows drawn from both institutions. Koolhaas is one of the world's most influential architects, a man brimming with ideas about how cities are shaped by shopping, entertainment, the pleasures of spectacle and the frustrations of desire. Sounds like Las Vegas...
Ashbery, the author of 20 books, is a Fulbright Scholar, a two-time Guggenheim Fellow and a MacArthur "genius" fellow. In 1975, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. He is also a winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In January, he was named the New York state poet...
...Vermeule won many prestigious awards during her lifetime, including a Fulbright scholarship and a Guggenheim fellowship. She earned a masters degree from Radcliffe in classical archaeo1ogy in 1954 and was later awarded an honorary degree from Harvard...