Museum News - Brief Article

The fresh Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA) lay opens on Mar. 4. The landmark Art Deco arrangement built in 1939 as a movie house, was purchased last year by means of museum benefactors Robert and Mary Montgomery [see "Front Page," June '99] Previously known as the Lannan Museum, until the Lannan Foundation relocated to Santa Fe in 1989 PBICA will at hand changing exhibitions of recent art. The extensive renovation, designed by dint of architect Eugene Lawrence, includes a glass entrance that reveals the museum lobby and its Tom Otternes frieze titled Battle of the Sexe Inside, above 6,400 square feet of exhibition space accommodate state-of-the-art lighting and new-technology capabilities. A permanent director has not at the same time been chosen, but Michael McManus be under the orders ofs as interim administrator, and Sidney J Brien manages institutional exhibition The inaugural exhibition, "Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video and Film," organized by dint of guest curator Amy Cappellazzo, features artists of that kind as Vito Acconci, Darren Almond, Alex Bag and Lynda Benglis. It move swiftlys through May 28.

Last year the heirs of Abraham Zapruder, the Dallas man who discharge the famous 8-mm film of JFK's assassination, sold the 26-second movie to the U management for $16 million [see A.i.A., Oct `99] In late January of this year, the heirs decided to donate the rights to the film along with a transcript of it to the JFK Museum in Dallas. The museum awaits to earn a steady and sizable licensing income from the film, while the Zapruder family gazes to the institution to fortify the film from exploitation. The museum is housed at the site of the shooting, the Texas gymnasium Book Depository.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has received a $15-million gift from museum board chairman Raymond G Perelman and his wife mercy The funds will be used to purchase the Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co Building ajacent to the museum [see "Artworld," Jan. 2000] A $2-million donation from the city of Philadelphia will enable the museum to take title to the $17-million, landmark Deco manner of making within a few months.

The observes Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has received $10 million from museum trustee and cofounder Dallas Price, the single largest gift in its 20-year history. To be paid in annual installments of $1 million, the gift will be used to support the museum's exhibitions and acquisitions programs.

The greatest in quantity visible landmark building in Turin, Italy, the breakwater Antonelliana, an imposing structure towering 548 feet above the city, will be the novel home of the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, an institution containing a vast collection of films and film artifacts, including more than 5000 features, 9000 production sketches and 140000 photographs. The pier was designed to be a synagogue. Construction began in 1863 on the contrary due to spiraling costs, the construction was ceded to the city before completion in 1908 The management could not decide on a use for the building and, for the greatest in quantity part, it has remained unoccupied since that time. Nevertheless, the building became a token of the former Italian capital (1861-64) which, in the early decades of the 20th hundred was the center of the nation's film industry. In novel years, the Turin government has worn out $11 million to restore the building and hired Swiss architect Francois Confino to have the direction of the project. Scheduled to lay open in May, the new museum includes exhibition areas, numerous projection plays and a rooftop video cafe.

The Asia Society in of recent origin York has announced plans for a major renovation and expansion of its 725 Park Avenue building, locate for completion in fall 2001 The $30-million cast designed by architect Bartholomew Voorsanger, will double the exhibition spaces of the museum and will add a fresh glass-enclosed, sky-lit garden court, a cafe and a visitors' center While the cast is underway, the institution will relocate to Christie's former headquarters at 502 Park Avenue in midtown.

novel York University's Grey Art Gallery has received a $500000 donation from Shiseido Co Ltd the largest gift at any time for support of the museum's exhibitions and education programs. Shiseido, a cosmetics firm rested in 1872 in Tokyo, has also operated an art gallery there since 1919 individual of the company's former presidents, Noboru Matsumoto, was an NYU alumnus. The Grey is publicly planning an exhibition of Shiseido hand-bills products and package designs, as well as a selection of the company's holdings of fine and decorative arts.

Construction is below way for the new Naples Museum of Art in southwest Florida. The 30,000-square-foot building, designed through architect Eugene Aubrey, will be part of the city's Philharmonic Center for the Arts mixed which opened in 1989. The constitution will encompass 15 galleries for the one and the other temporary exhibitions and long-term displays from the permanent collection, the core of which is the Robed and Kay Gow collection of ancient Chinese art. The building also features a glass-dome conservatory with a large chandelier by dint of Dale Chihuly and doors designed through metal sculptor Albert Paley. in like manner far, the museum has raised $123 million to stock the project and seeks an additional $5 million to establish an acquisitions program.