Category: visual

“In Genoa-based Renzo Piano, 76, the Kimbell got what it signed on for: a predictable, restrained elegance.”

“The project involves the reopening of its Thames-facing entrance and a new spiral staircase beneath its rotunda. The circular balcony of the rotunda’s domed atrium, closed to visitors since the 1920s, has also been reopened.”

A group of Lower Manhattan residents is preparing to sue the New York Police Department over its security plan for the World Trade Center, saying that the plan will leave the center in “fortresslike isolation” and the area around it “as impervious to traffic as the Berlin Wall.”

“‘I love the work and it’s going to tear my heart out to see it torn down, but as a judge I have to apply the law,’ said the Brooklyn federal court judge Frederic Block.”

The internal appointment of Bernard Blistène, the director of the cultural development department at the Pompidou, came as a surprise to some observers.

“Detectives say the gangs are prepared to use extreme violence to get what they want during the robberies.”

T”he recluse German collector who kept a priceless trove of art, possibly including works stolen by the Nazis, hidden for half a century says he did so because he ‘loved’ them and that he wants them back.”

“Each dollhouse was to include at least one feature that made life easier for a child with a disability, and that request seemed to inspire designers, who responded with Braille exteriors and free-flowing spaces.”

“Sculptures by Hepworth and Degas and paintings by Stubbs and Rothko are among 30 treasures worth £49.4m acquired in the past year through the government’s acceptance in lieu scheme, which allows those who have a bill for inheritance tax to offset part of those taxes by donating important cultural, scientific or historic objects reallocated to the nation via public museums and galleries.”

“The museums in Baghdad and Basra have been closed for more than two decades, depriving a generation of Iraqis of their heritage.”