Tag: museums
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Kimbell Art Museum to add new building
We’ve said it before and I guess we’ll say it again: times are lean in the museum world, but that’s not preventing another museum from expanding. This time it’s the Kimbell Art Museum, who chose Renzo Piano to design a separate building for the museum’s site. The new building, slated for completion in 2013, will…
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Italy’s first contemporary art museum to open
Italy’s first state museum dedicated solely to contemporary art, MAXXI, will open its doors May 30 in Rome. The name is a play on the abbreviation for “Museum of Art” and the Roman numerals for the 21st century. The Iraqi-born and London-based architect Zaha Hadid won the commission and designed what she envisioned as an…
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New corpse flower set to bloom at Huntington
If you’re a fan of prehistoric-looking, nasty-smelling plants (and who isn’t!?), you’ll want to get to the Huntington Gardens in about two weeks. This flower is the latest offspring of the first Corpse Flower that bloomed in 1999. The last to bloom, in June 2009, was a different offspring. Read more about the plant and…