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Tag Archives: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Miniatures, near and afar
Clay Fulkerson, designer and sculptor of miniature temples, sent me a photo of his latest temple, a Baroque incense burner, shortly after I posted a video of pencil lead sculptures by Salavat Fidai, which elicited from Andrew Reed a photo … Continue reading
Breuer Whitney/Met Breuer
The Met Breuer opened today. It is the Brutalist building that the Whitney Museum of American Art left before moving last year into a building designed for it by Renzo Piano in New York’s Meatpacking District. The Metropolitan Museum of … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Diller Scofidio Renfro, Froma Harrop, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Marcel Breuer, Met Breuer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, silkstocking.nyc, Tod Williams & Billie Tien, Whitney Museum of American Art
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Met, NYPL dodge ’40s bullet
A surprising revelation in an interesting paragraph from Michael Gross’s history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogues’ Gallery: [NYC parks commissioner and Met board member] Robert Moses’s first impression of the new director [Francis Henry Taylor, 1940-55] was changing. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged art, Demolition, Francis Henry Taylor, Merger, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Gross, Museums, New York Public Library, Robert Moses, Rogues' Gallery
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Surprised and astonished
One of the pet peeves of Michael Gross in his Rogues’ Gallery, a history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is how long it took its board’s stuffed shirts to accept modern art into its collection. Here is an amusing … Continue reading
Cloistered words of beauty
John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave a park in the upper reaches of Manhattan to New York City and built a museum in the grand manner on its grounds for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Cloisters and Fort Tryon Park … Continue reading
