Museum News - Brief Article

The San Antonio Museum of Art freshly unveiled the new Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art. Designed through the architectural firm Overland Partners, the three-story wing provides 30000 square feet of exhibition space for a certain number of of the 2,500 works of Latin American art dating from 1000 BC to the not away that were assembled by the late Nelson A. Rockefeller and donated to the museum in 1985 through his daughter Ann Rockefeller Roberts. The gallery interiors were designed by means of Clifford La Fontaine, known for his museum displays at the Met among other institutions.

Skidmore society in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., has announced plans to begin construction of the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery this spring. Designed by the agency of New Mexico-based architect Antoine Predock, the $10-million, 34,000-square-foot manner of making will be his first public building in the Northeast. The Tang will house classrooms, an auditorium, and several galleries for temporary art exhibitions as well as for selections from Skidmore's permanent collection of above 7,000 works.

The Henry true-jack Foundation has awarded $2 million to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco to establish the Henry R pickerel Gallery for Chinese art in its novel facility. Currently located in of gold Gate Park, the museum is scheduled to put in motion in 2001 to the advanced in years Main Library. The building is publicly being seismically renovated and restored by dint of architect Gae Aulenti, best known for her interior design of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. The Asian Art Museum has already raised greatest in quantity of the $100 million to $120 million exigencyed to complete the project.

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has received a $15 million grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. greatest in quantity of the funds will be used to support performing arts programs, including novel music projects, performance art, experimental theater and interdisciplinary works.

St John's Museum of Art in Wilmington, NC has named Charles Gwathmey as the architect for a fresh 30,000-square-foot facility. The North Carolina-born architect, known for his museum designs, including novel additions to Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in of recent origin York, was selected from a collection of 22 architects who were asked to submit proposals. The throw was initiated last year with a gift of $4 million from the Bruce B Cameron Foundation and five acres of land from the Louise Wells Cameron family. Sited upon a Civil War battlefield, the building is plant for completion in approximately 2 1/2 years.

Santa Fe's Georgia O'Keeffe Museum lately received a large number of the artist's personal belongings, which were donated by means of Anna Marie and Juan Hamilton. In 1987 O'Keeffe bequeathed the items to Juan Hamilton, the sculptor who was her longtime friend. The gift includes her library; studio materials like as easels, paints and paintbrushes; and a large number of base objects: rocks, bones, shells and other items from all above the world, which the painter ofttimes used as subjects in her work.

The Art Museum of the University of Texas at Austin newly changed its name to the Jack s Blanton Museum of Art, in honor of the former chairman of the university's board of governors The museum also announced that it has raised $355 million to capital a new 100,000-square-foot facility for the display of the institution's 12000 works of art, put to open in 2002. After looking at solicited proposals from more than 200 architects from around the world, the museum's building committee has culled seven possible designs. Among the finalists are Herzog & de Meuron Steven Holl Antoine Predock and the team of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.

The Ikon Gallery, an institution for contemporary art in Birmingham, England, newly opened its new quarters--a red-brick Victorian Gothic schoolhouse renovated by means of architects Levitt Bernstein Associates. The three-year, $9.6-million cast which was facilitated by a $72 million National Heritage Lottery grant, provides 22000 square feet of space for exhibitions, a cafe, a bookshop and education activities. Inaugural displays included site-specific installations by Nancy Spero and Georgina Starr.

The Rhode Island place of education of Design Museum has received a gift of $15 million from longtime museum patrons Paula and Leonard Granoff. The stocks will go toward the maintenance of three newly renovated galleries which are to be named after the patrons.

The Kresge Foundation has announced a novel round of grants to science and cultural institutions across the political division Among the awards is a $1-million allocation to the Portland Art Museum for building renovations. The California body of Arts and Crafts receives $40000 toward a fresh San Francisco facility, and the CM Russell Museum in Great Falls, Mont earns $450,000 to be used for expansion and renovation.

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