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...fell and nine years since it closed for a ?100 million makeover, the Albertina opened last month to reveal a stunning symbiosis of traditional and modern architecture: glorious, handcrafted staterooms inspired by palaces such as Versailles and Laeken, alongside cool, high-tech spaces that bring to mind London's Tate Modern. For director Klaus Albrecht Schröder, this juxtaposition of old and new is the Albertina's unique selling point. "You move from one world to another. From a beautiful late-18th century palace to a thoroughly modern 21st century museum," he says. After a 1992 fire destroyed...
...cultural waterfront, sporting national centers for theater, film and painting. It seems an unlikely spot for a battle. But this week a major salvo will be fired, as advertising millionaire and art collector Charles Saatchi opens his much-anticipated new gallery, just a riverside stroll away from his archrival, Tate Modern, which opened to huge acclaim in 2000. Saatchi is one of the art world's most notorious figures, having used his wealth to shape a generation of British art. He favors works that make big, confrontational gestures, like Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind...
There's a peculiarly local flavor to the latest show of contemporary art at London's Tate Britain, which opened last week. It's evident even in the work of featured artists who hail from Japan or Turkey. Shizuka Yokomizo photographs strangers at their windows by appointment - a perfect comment on the land of net curtains. Kutlug Ataman devoted earlier film and video work to a transvestite and a faded opera star. Now, in The 4 Seasons of Veronica Read, he chronicles a year in the life of the woman who keeps Britain's official collection of amaryllis lily varieties...
...with no hot restaurant and no cabs. At a time when the museum blockbuster is threatened by high insurance rates and topic fatigue--there are Monet haystacks I see more often than I see my mother--"Matisse Picasso," which comes to the U.S. after hugely successful runs at the Tate Modern in London and the Grand Palais in Paris, is proof that the blockbuster can still be a public service, not to mention a supreme pleasure. It's only February, but it's safe to say that this is the show of the year...
Like the power plant used for the Tate Modern, the existing Blackstone plant is a structure with inherent beauty. On the facade, one sees architecturally significant adornments, towering windows, and decorative wrought iron work. Inside are large, uninterrupted spaces (perfect for oversize contemporary painting and sculpture), with pipes running along the walls and ceiling in an industrial—but aesthetically pleasing—manner. Even the smokestacks coming out the top are striking; the polished stainless steel often glistens in the slanting rays of sunset. A renovation could add other defining elements, such as a stylized bridge across Western...