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SEVEN WEEKS BEFORE ITS reopening, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) is not quite ready for its close-up. For one thing, the sculpture garden, one of Manhattan's best places to kick back on a nice day, has no sculpture and no garden. And the six-story glass wall of MOMA's new research center is still partly covered with scaffolding. But at the museum's temporary offices around the corner, everyone seems confident that things will be ready for the grand unveiling on Nov. 20 of the new, greatly expanded MOMA, a $425 million reconstruction by the Japanese...
...Like the Sphinx, La Grande Jatte does not travel. Since the painting entered the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1926, it has been lent just once, to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City for a Seurat retrospective in 1958. After it arrived there, a fire broke out in MOMA's galleries. The painting was unharmed, but the trustees of the Art Institute decided it would never leave home again. Even the great Seurat touring retrospective in 1991 had to do without it. Thirteen years later, the Art Institute is making up for that...
Some of the best examples of that rethinking now fill two large galleries of the Museum of Modern Art's temporary outpost in Queens, N.Y. Using 25 spectacular architectural models (some 14 ft. high), "Tall Buildings," a show that runs at MOMA through Sept. 27, looks at the ways in which the skyscraper has evolved since the early '90s, at least in the hands of its most gifted practitioners, the kind who are proposing--and, hey, even producing, but usually in other nations--buildings that don't resemble the bland boxes that crowd most American downtowns. Nobody wants to summon...
...more conservative American market. Some of the best examples of that rethinking now fill two large galleries of the Museum of Modern Art's temporary outpost in Queens, New York City. Using 25 spectacular architectural models (some more than 4 m high), "Tall Buildings," a show that runs at moma through Sept. 27, looks at the ways in which the skyscraper has evolved since the early '90s, at least in the hands of its most gifted practitioners, the kind who are proposing - and, hey, even producing, but usually in other nations - buildings that don't resemble the bland boxes that...
When he was designing MoMA QnS in 1999, the American Institute of Architecture awarded him its Young Architects Award...