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Chicagoans respond to draft Chicago Cultural Plan Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2012
CHICAGO, IL - "How do Chicagoans feel about the draft Chicago Cultural Plan 2012, which was released July 16? That's precisely what cultural planners sought to learn when they launched the latest round of Town Hall meetings Tuesday evening at Malcolm X College, on West Van Buren Street. Though the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) had held more than 30 public meetings earlier this year to gather input for the Cultural Plan, this time was different. Now a draft version existed, and Chicagoans had had a week to study its 64 pages (plus 38 pages of supplemental material), all of which had been posted online at chicagoculturalplan2012.com." [See also The Windy City is Blowing Up: Rahm Emanuel Releases Detailed Plan to Turn Chicago Into Art Oasis, Bouin ArtInfo, 20 July 2012; Make No Little [Cultural] Plans, Paul Klein, Huffington Post, 19 July 2012; DRAFT Chicago Cultural Plan 2012, NEA chief Landesman and others champion Cultural Plan, The Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2012; Draft Of Chicago Cultural Plan Released, Chicagoist, 18 July 2012; For The Citizenry: Draft Chicago Cultural Plan Ian Spula, Curbed Chicago, 16 July 2012; The Cultural Plan on music: Specifics nonexistent, Jim DeRogatis, WBEZ 91.5, July 16, 2012]
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Culture queen Rita Davies’ departure a huge loss for Toronto Martin Knelman, Toronto.com, 27 July 2012
TORONTO, ON - ""Virtually irreplaceable" is the phrase Councillor Shelley Carroll uses to describe Rita Davies, whose 13-year-reign as queen of culture for the City of Toronto ended last week when she left city hall with disconcerting abruptness. It’s no doubt true it would be hard to imagine finding anyone with the vision, intelligence and leadership qualities of Davies to take over as the city’s executive director of culture."
Laurent Fabius débarque Renaud Muselier de l'Institut du monde arabe Libération, 25 juillet 2012
PARIS, FRANCE – "Le chef de la diplomatie française, Laurent Fabius, a signifié son congé mercredi au président de l’Institut du Monde arabe (IMA), Renaud Muselier, avec une échéance en novembre afin de renouveler et réorganiser la gouvernance de cet organisme basé à Paris."
Hundreds gather for opening of $12-million Niagara Falls History Museum expansion ANNIE SILVESTER, Bullet News Niagara, 22 July 2012
NIAGARA FALLS, ON – "It was a historic moment in the Falls today as the Niagara Falls History Museum officially opened its doors to the public and the two-year, $12-million renovation and expansion was put on display. The space, designed by architects Moriyama and Teshima, features a bright modern atmosphere with soaring ceilings combining the old with the new, expansive windows which flood the space with natural light, and an impressive combination of glass, wood and steel."
Middelheim, un musée à ciel ouvert Connaissance des Arts, 20 juillet 2012
PANVERS, Belgique – "Le parc de sculptures de Middelheim, à Anvers, vient d’être remanié et agrandi. Il accueille pour l’été une exposition dédiée à l’artiste allemand Thomas Schütte et offre toute l’année, à travers ses quatre cents œuvres, un panorama de la sculpture moderne et actuelle.";
Governments offer room to fulfil vision Dan Lett, Winnipeg Free Press - Online, 19 July 2012
WINNIPEG, MB - "Finally, a solution to the funding shortfall threatening the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. For much of the past year, the federal Crown corporation overseeing the museum has scrapped with its government masters over where to find an additional $40 million to complete construction. The dispute has already delayed the opening of the museum by a year and threatened to leave the completed building an empty shell. According to sources at all levels of government though, an agreement has been reached to bridge that funding gap."
La Tate Modern ouvre ses « Tanks » Journal des arts, 18 juillet 2012
LONDRES, ROYAUME-UNI – "La Tate Modern a ouvert mercredi 18 juillet un espace dédié à l’art « vivant », dans les anciens réservoirs de carburants, les « Tanks » au sous-sol de l’institution." [See also Tate Modern launches rough, raw and ready Tanks, The Art Newspaper, 18 July 2012]
Coup dur pour la Maison de l'histoire de France Nouvel Observateur, 17 juillet 2012
PARIS, FRANCE – " La ministre de la Culture a annoncé un "moratoire" sur ce dossier, projet culturel phare et contesté du sarkozysme. Ses détracteurs s'en félicitent. L'avenir de la Maison de l'histoire de France est désormais en suspens. Mercredi 11 juillet, la ministre de la Culture Aurélie Filippetti annonçait un "moratoire sur toute décision prise" par son comité, précisant que des décisions quant au devenir du musée, dont l'ouverture est prévue en 2015, seraient annoncées "dans un calendrier proche"."
Oneida Nation gives $10 million to American Revolution Center Stephan Salisbury, philly.com, 12 July 2012
PHILADELPHIA, PA - "The Oneida Nation of New York is giving $10 million toward construction of the Museum of the American Revolution, planned for Third and Chestnut Streets. The gift, one of the largest ever from the Oneidas, staunch supporters of George Washington's Continental Army, comes a month after museum backer H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest announced a $40 million museum challenge grant. The American Revolution Center seeks to raise $150 million for construction of the museum, programming, and an endowment." [See also Museum of the American Revolution Receives $10 M Donation from Oneida Indian Nation, Press Release, www.americanrevolutioncenter.org, 12 July 2012]
CMHR deals with Holodomor group Winnipeg Sun, 5 July 2012
WINNIPEG, MB - "The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is partnering with a Ukrainian group to raise awareness of the Holodomor. CEO Stuart Murray travelled to Kyiv to meet with the Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine, signing a collaboration deal with the Holodomor-focused museum yesterday. "The Canadian Museum for Human Rights will strive to enhance understanding of human rights issues, not only in Canada, but internationally,” Murray said. “This partnership will help bring the story of the Holodomor to a wider audience, to the benefit of generations to come." " [See also Hommage canadien aux victimes des grandes famines ukrainiennes, Radio Canada International, 5 juillet 2012]
Feedback will help form city arts plan Times Record News, 5 July 2012
WICHITA FALLS, TX - "The Priddy Foundation wants to paint a prettier picture of the arts in Wichita Falls and so is working with Lord Cultural Resources to develop an arts plan for the city. Residents can give their input about the arts and culture offerings available in Wichita Falls by completing an art survey. Funded by The Priddy Foundation, the Arts Participation Survey is intended to expand the understanding of the variety of arts and cultural interests here. It also will provide an opportunity for insight into what residents would like to see in the future."
Museums
Schwarzenegger museum first birthday success AustrianTimes.at, 30 July 2012
AUSTRIA - "A museum dedicated to Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger at his childhood home in Thal near Graz Austria is celebrating a first successful year. The museum which opened on Schwarzenegger’s birthday last year has something to celebrate after so many people visited the museum in the first year."
J.F., The Economist, 30 July 2012
DUBAI, UAE - "In the patriarchal societies of the Arab world, quite a few women are getting noticed for flouting conventional gender norms. There's Saudi Arabia's Manal al-Sharif, who lost her job and came under great pressure for driving a car and putting a video of it on YouTube; Sheikha Mayassa Al Thani, a powerful art patron in Qatar; and Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, a globe-trotting minister of foreign trade for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). And later this year the region will see its first museum dedicated to the accomplishments of women."
Museums Studying Dealer’s Artifacts ROBIN POGREBIN and KEVIN FLYNN, The New York Times, 27 July 2012
NEW YORK, NY - "Federal authorities are asking American museums to scrutinize their collections for items that they have obtained from a veteran Manhattan art dealer now accused of possessing antiquities stolen from India and other countries."
Nigerians Decry Gift to Boston Museum, Calling the Cache of Artifacts "Spoils of War" Kate Deimling, Blouin ArtInfo, 27 July 2012
BOSTON, MA - "Usually a major donation to a museum is cause for celebration, but the recently announcement that Boston's Museum of Fine Arts had received a gift of 34 West African artworks from Robert Owen Lehman is provoking as much criticism as enthusiasm. The cause is the century-old act of colonial aggression that brought the works into western hands, and the simmering political dispute highlights the thorny issues of provenance that still haunt museums everywhere. Thirty-two of the Lehman pieces are from the Kingdom of Benin in present-day southern Nigeria and were looted by the British after a destructive expedition in 1897. This bloody provenance, which is acknowledged by the museum, has provoked vociferous calls in Nigeria for the works to be repatriated."
Museums 2020 consultation launches Have your say on the future of the sector Patrick Steel, Museum Association, 25 July 2012
UNITED KINGDOM - "The Museums Association has today launched its Museums 2020 consultation: asking the museum sector to come together to help create a bold vision for UK museums and their impact. In particular, the consultation focuses on the difference museums can have on individuals, communities, society and the environment."
As MOCA's Money Woes Simmer, A Look at How Major Museums' Finances Work Shane Ferro, Blouin ArtInfo, 25 July 2012
LOS ANGELES, CA - "In the wake of chief curator Paul Schimmel's controversial departure from L.A. MOCA, various stories have swirled about the museum, its dire financial situation, and the competence of former art dealer Jeffrey Deitch in the director's position. Comparisons have been made to Los Angeles's other major art museum, LACMA, and other major U.S. arts institutions, not least because MOCA shares trustees (and therefore donors) with some of these museums. With the idea of exploring the financial position of museums, ARTINFO set out to find out more. It is fairly common knowledge that at major museums budgets are big, ticket sales don't cover all expenses, and directors are paid handsomely to coax hefty checks out of well-known collectors — but we set out to find the specifics."
Pakistan, China's museum of Natural History ink MoU for collaboration in research projects Muhammad Arif, Pakistan Chian Institute, nihao-salam.com, 20 July 2012
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – "Pakistan and China’s Museum of Natural History have MoU for increasing collaboration in various research projects of natural history. Officials from Beijing Museum of Natural History (BMNH) and Pakistan Museum of Natural History (PMNH), a division of Ministry of Science and Technology signed the MoU for collaboration in research areas in Beijing previous day. Director General PMNH, Dr.Syed Azhar Hassan from Pakistan while Director BMNH Professor Ming Qingjin from Chinese side signed the MoU. Counselor Technical affairs at Pakistan Beijing Embassy, Zameer Ahmed Awan was also present on this occasion. According to the MOU, both the organizations would extend cooperation to enhance research activities and boost exchange of experts besides collaboration in other areas."
Ex-director of Getty Museum reveals why he was ousted Michael Brand takes pride in working with Italy and Greece to overcome impasse over controversial artefacts Elizabeth Fortescue, The Art Newspaper, 19 July 2012
LOS ANGELES, CA - "The former director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Michael Brand, has revealed more about the reasons for his abrupt departure from the Los Angeles institution in January 2010, telling The Art Newspaper that his position there had become "untenable". Brand blames many of the Getty’s internal troubles on its management structure. The director of the Art Gallery NSW in Sydney since June, Brand recalls his role as the Getty Museum's director as a “lonely” one. “It became very clear that the museum director was in a position where he couldn’t actually make decisions or plan,” Brand says."
M&M maker Mars gives Smithsonian's National Museum of American History $5M for exhibit Art Daily, 18 July 2012
WASHINGTON, USA - " Candy maker Mars Inc. is donating $5 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to create a new gallery focused on business and innovation in the United States dating back to the 1700s, the museum announced Wednesday. The McLean, Va.-based maker of Snickers, M&Ms and pet foods will be the lead sponsor of a planned "American Enterprise" exhibit. The 8,000-square-foot multimedia gallery will trace the nation's economic development from a small agricultural nation to one of the world's largest economies."
Feds won't build new Science and Technology Museum $500M project seeks to create 'Smithsonian of the north' Jon Willing, Ottawa Sun, 18 July 2012
OTTAWA, ON - "With the Domtar complex on the Ottawa River being the preferred choice for a half-billion-dollar relocation of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, managers are knee-deep in planning and hoping taxpayers foot most of the bill. Turns out, it might all be castles in the air."
Beijing's Palace Museum looks at becoming the Louvre of Asia Travel Business News, 18 July 2012
BBEIJING, CHINA - "Shan Jixiang is the curator of Beijing’s top attraction, the Palace Museum, known as the Imperial Forbidden City. Every year, the cultural institution attracts over 14 million visitors. A proud figure, especially when compared with the millions of visitors who strolled through the former residence of Chinese Emperors back to the year 1949. Since opening its doors that year, statistics show that Beijing’s Palace Museum has seen more than 312 million people. “Its attraction is closely related to its abundant collections,” explained the curator."
Tobacco museum defends educational status Miranda Shek, Global Times, 17 July 2012
SHANGHAI, CHINA - "The China Tobacco Museum in Shanghai refuted recent criticism challenging its status as a national educational base, emphasizing that the museum does not promote smoking. A string of local media reports nationwide sparked debate that the China Tobacco Museum in Yangpu district should not have local status as a "patriotic education demonstration base" because it sends the wrong message to young people."
Jianchuan: China's Biggest Museum Cluster GoChengdoo (blog), gochengdoo.com, 17 July 2012
CHINA - "One such place is Anren Town, Dayi County, and its vast grounds collectively known as the Jianchuan Museum Cluster. The "cluster" is comprised of 10 exhibition halls, several outdoor plazas, and a handful of teahouses and souvenir shops." [See also Jianchuan Museum Cluster, Wall Street Journal, 30 July 2012]
How We Doubled Attendance in a Year: One More Post about How Events Changed Our Attendance Nina Simon, Museum 2.0, 17 July 2012
USA - "I promise--after this post, I'll stop writing about this. But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. I'm in no way suggesting this is the best or only way to get more people involved in an institution--it's just the way that we did it."
The Metropolitan Museum Set a New Attendance Record in 2011-12 Fiscal Year BLOUIN ArtInfo, 16 July 2012
NEW YORK, NY - "Today the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that in the fiscal year that ended on June 30 the institution broke all its previous attendance records since it started keeping track over four decades ago, hosting a staggering 6.28 million visitors, or 600,000 more than in 2010-11. In addition to exceptionally well-received new and renovated galleries for Middle Eastern and American art — which received 593,000 and 365,000 visitors, respectively — the historical exhibitions “The Steins Collect” and “The Renaissance Portrait” saw the greatest numbers (324,000 and 205,000, respectively), while the final five weeks of the Costume Institute’s Alexander McQueen retrospective last summer provided a nice boost."
Filipinos win design tilt for UK museum Tarra Quismundo, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 16 July 2012
MANILA, PHILIPPINES - "Architect Abelardo Tolentino Jr. once drew up designs for clients in Moscow who had never seen a Filipino. “When we presented there six years ago, they were surprised. Of all nationalities, Filipinos are the ones designing their projects. Aside from the fact that it’s fun, it also gives us a sense of pride that somehow, we have given them an image of the Filipino talent,” Tolentino said."
Heike Hanada with Benedict Tonon to Design the New Bauhaus Museum in Weimar Irina Vinnitskaya, ArchDaily, 16 July 2012
WEIMAR, GERMANY - "Klassik Stiftung Weimar, host of the competition for the New Bauhaus Museum in Weimer, has announced that Berlin-based architect with Professor Benedict Tonon, has been selected as the winning proposal. Last March, ArchDaily announced the shortlist for the New Bauhaus Museum in Weimer design competition. The jury had provided the four finalists with recommendations to improve their proposals in preparation for the VOF Procedure (Contracting Regulations for the Awarding of Professional Services)."
5 Major Obstacles Standing in the Way of the Rise of China's Art Institutions Kyle Chayka, Blouin ArtInfo, 15 July 2012
CHINA - "At the end of the year, per Chinese government decree, all provincial and state-run museums in China will be open to the public free of charge, reports the Global Times. This is a powerful gesture of national commitment to the arts from a party not exactly known for its cultural support — but the new ruling naturally also brings up questions surrounding the current health of Chinese art museums. The amazing rise of Chinese contemporary artists, collectors, and auction houses points to a true renaissance for the native art world. Yet these hopeful phenomena have been achieved in the face of some long-term problems which continue to plague China's official art institutions — problems that will have to be confronted by the nation's major contemporary art museums if the local art scene is to rise to the international status to which it clearly aspires. "
Our readers have picked their favourite Canadian museum Mark Stachiew, canada.com, 13 July 2012
OTTAWA, ON - "The art lovers have spoken. Their votes carried the National Gallery of Canada to the top of our competition for Canada’s best museum. The vote was close, but the Ottawa institution managed to edge out Drumheller’s magnificent Royal Tyrell Museum."
Gelato Museum: Carpigiani To Open $2 Million Space In Italy This September Huffington Post, 12 July 2012
BOLOGNA, ITALY - "The next time you visit Italy, you might want to plan an excursion to the northern city of Bologna: The Carpigiani Foundation plans to open a museum devoted to gelato there this September. The Carpigiani Gelato Museum will showcase the world's first-written gelato recipe, 10,000 photographs and about 20 vintage gelato-making machines, including the first hand-operated churns made of wood and iron. "
$90-million expansion of Quebec museum planned ALLISON VAN RASSEL, Daily Commercial News, 11 July 2012
QUEBEC CITY, QC - "Quebec’s National Museum of Fine Arts is planning a $90-million expansion project funded in part by the Governments of Quebec and Canada and its own foundation. The provincial and federal governments will each provide $33.7 million and the foundation will provide $22.6 million. The museum is scheduled to open in 2014."
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum gets $2.5 million gift The Tennessean, 11 July 2012
NASHVILLE, TN - "Southern California-based Academy of Country Music will donate $2.5 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to open a new gallery showcasing trends in modern country music, the two organizations confirmed to "The Tennessean" on Tuesday. The contribution will help underwrite a new “ACM Contemporary Gallery” at the downtown museum."
Une nouvelle équipe à la tête de la Centre Pompidou Foundation Connaissance des Arts, 10 Juillet 2012 PARIS, FRANCE - "Après des mois de tension entre le Centre Pompidou et la Centre Pompidou Foundation, une fondation américaine qui s’est donnée pour mission, depuis 1977, d’aider le musée français à acheter des œuvres et à encourager les dons, la situation semble pacifiée. "
61 % des français ont visité un musée ou un monument historique en 2011 Journal des Arts, 9 Juillet 2012
PARIS, FRANCE - "Selon un sondage réalisé pour la Direction générale des patrimoines, près de 2 français sur 3 ont visité un musée, une exposition ou un site historique en 2011. Les enquêteurs ont constaté la diversité sociologique de ce public. "
Guitar museum travels the US, searching for a home Associated Press, 7 July 2012
PITTSBURGH, PA — "Like a rolling stone, a traveling guitar museum is searching for a home. The National Guitar Museum features ancient stringed instruments from Persia, the first electric guitar, and ultra-modern experiments that would be at home in a sci-fi movie. But the recession of recent years hasn't been kind to museums and nonprofits, so the founders decided to go on tour before putting down roots."
East Boston residents propose turning old library into Museum of Realist Art Jeremy C. Fox, boston.com, East Boston, 6 July 2012
BOSTON, MA - "East Boston’s harbor views and affordable studio spaces have attracted artists for years. But two locals hope to make the neighborhood a can’t-miss spot in the local arts scene by creating a new museum. Pamela Sienna and George Kougeas, residents of the neighborhood’s Eagle Hill section since 1995, are proposing to create a Museum of Realist Art inside the old East Boston Branch Library on Meridian Street, which will be vacant after a new branch opens in Bremen Street Park next year."
Baisse d’activité des musées régionaux britanniques Journal des Arts, 5 Juillet 2012
LONDRES, ROYAUME-UNI – " Un sondage réalisé par l’Association des musées met en évidence une baisse d’activité des institutions régionales au Royaume-Uni."
La Presse, 5 Juillet 2012
MODENE, ITALIE –" Les origines du mythe. C'est sous ce thème que le nouveau musée Casa Enzo Ferrari a été inauguré en Italie, en mars dernier. Un véritable monument édifié par la ville de Modène en hommage à la figure la plus emblématique du monde de l'automobile au 20e siècle.
Government plans $50M subterranean visitors’ centre on Hill Mohammed Adam, The Ottawa Citizen, 29 June 2012
OTTAWA, ON - "Even as it is preaching austerity and cutting programs and jobs, the federal government is planning a $50-million underground visitors’ centre on Parliament Hill. Sitting three storeys deep, the Visitor Welcome Centre is designed to accommodate the growing number of visitors to Canada’s seat of government. To be constructed in three stages, the first phase is expected to be completed in the summer of 2017 and cost $48.9 million. According to the Request for Proposals released by Public Works Canada, the centre will connect “the West Block, the Centre Block and the East Block Underground Service buildings.” "
Architecture
Projects for the People at the U.S. Pavilion in Venice The American pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale will document design for public spaces. Fred A. Bernstein, Green Source, July 24, 2012
USA - "With a little more than a month before the opening of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, firms around the world are finalizing contributions to the massive show, a grab bag of architecture and architecture-related exhibitions that will run from August 27 though November 25. As usual, there will be an “official” exhibition, this time curated by the British starchitect David Chipperfield, with the title Common Ground, and 55 separate national displays (with Angola, Kosovo, Kuwait, and Peru joining 51 returning countries)."
RIBA Announces Stirling Nominees Architectural Record, July 23, 2012
UNITED KIngdom - "The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the shortlist for this year’s Stirling Prize, and it includes the London Olympic Stadium by Populous as well as two projects by OMA. Given annually to a recently completed project in the U.K., the top award in British architecture comes with a £20,000 ($30,000) prize. The winner will be selected by a panel of design luminaries chaired by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw and announced on October 13. In the meantime, click the image below to view a slide show featuring each of the nominees." [see also OMA, Chipperfield and Populous make this year's shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize, WAN, 24 July 2012 and Rem Koolhaas Makes Stirling Prize Shortlist Debut — Twice! — Drowning Out Zaha Hadid's Olympic Pool, Janelle Zara, Blouin ArtInfo, 23 July 2012]
Tumult Grows Over LEED Rating System Update Nadine M. Post, Green Source, July 20, 2012
USA - "Members of the buildings sector are applauding the U.S. Green Building Council's decision to delay the release of the next version of its popular green-building rating system, called LEED. In the meantime, debate rages on over the content of the draft revision. Consequently, USGBC is holding an unprecedented fifth public comment period on the latest draft, from Oct. 2 to Dec. 10."
Ouverture de la galerie de l'histoire du Château de Versailles D’architectures, 17 juillet 2012
VERSAILLES, FRANCE – "À quoi ressemble Versailles avant Louis XIV ? Comment le petit relais de chasse de Louis XIII devient-il le plus grand palais d'Europe ? Quels sont les embellissements voulus par le jeune roi Soleil dans son palais des fêtes et des plaisirs ? Saviez-vous que la Galerie des Glaces était à l'origine une terrasse donnant sur les jardins ?"
Russell Fortmeyer, Green Source, 12 July 2012
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - "You can't miss the Pixel building. The project is sustainable design's version of a drag queen, a muscular structure wrapped in a riot of accessories. Dylan Brady of Melbourne's Studio 505, who designed the project, is blunt about its dramatic presence. "We're very excited that it was voted among the top ten ugliest buildings in the world, because we're brash down here in Australia and we know how hard it is to get everyone's attention," Brady says. But even as it piles on campy flourishes, Pixel's costume of jagged, candy-colored shading panels conceals a super-high-performance building designed to achieve carbon and water neutrality."
Night works: Sprucing up the Sydney Opera House The Daily Telegraph, 11 July 2012
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - "TALK about undercutting our national icon. This $152 million project is the Sydney Opera House's first major work since it opened in 1973 but the excavation isn't going to be a giant swimming pool with a seemingly bottomless deep end. A new loading dock and an upgrade to the forecourt roadway is the reason for the colossal hole and the machinery parked just a stone throw from the famous Opera House steps. The project is part of $1.1 billion in planned works to the UNESCO World Heritage-listed building over the next 10 years." [See also Sydney Opera House flagged for $1 billion restoration, The Daily Telegraph, 21 March 2012]
Heike Hanada with Benedict Tonon Selected to Design the New Bauhaus Museum in Weimar Bustler.net, 9 Juillet 2012
GERMANY - "In the final tendering procedure for the New Bauhaus Museum in Weimar, Germany, the highly minimalistic design concept by Berlin-based architect Heike Hanada with Benedict Tonon was today selected as the winning entry."
WSP Flack + Kurtz bring the new wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to life WAN, 6 July 2012
BOSTON, MA - "The new wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has been described as Boston's first great public building of the 21st century. Established at its current location for over 100 years, the MFA contains over 450,000 works of art, one of the most comprehensive collections in the US. The fifth most-visited museum in the country, the MFA takes its place as an icon in the cultural life of Boston. The Art of the Americas Wing, and the Shapiro Family Courtyard were designed by Foster + Partners (CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares, Inc., executive architects) opening in November 2010."
Le premier FRAC nouvelle génération inauguré à Rennes Culturecommunication.gouv.fr, 5 Juillet 2012
RENNES, FRANCE – "Le 5 juillet, Aurélie Filippetti était à Rennes pour inaugurer avec le ministre de la Défense Jean-Yves Le Drian, président du conseil régional, le nouveau bâtiment du Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Bretagne (Frac)."
Inauguration du Shard à Londres, la plus haute tour d’Europe Journal des Arts, 4 Juillet 2012
LONDRES, ROYAUME-UNI - "La tour conçue par Renzo Piano culmine à 310 mètres de hauteur. Installée au sud de la Tamise dans le quartier de London Bridge, la « nouvelle icône » de la ville est inaugurée le 5 juillet 2012. Certains lui reprochent d’écraser de sa hauteur la Cathédrale Saint-Paul, symbole de Londres depuis trois siècles."
Centre Pompidou : trois ans de travaux pour rénover son système d’aération Journal des Arts, 2 Juillet 2012
PARIS, FRANCE – " Inauguré il y a 35 ans, le Centre Pompidou subit la lente dégradation du temps. Un vaste chantier de réfection du système d’aération va débuter cet été et s’étendra sur 3 années ; mais le musée, deuxième musée le plus visité à Paris, restera ouvert au public malgré les travaux."
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