August Wilson Center for African American Culture

August Wilson Center for African American Culture

August Wilson Center for African American Culture PITTSBURGH | Months away from its grand opening, the August Wilson Center for African American Culture is shaping up …

 

Construction Begins On Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi

Construction Begins On Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi

Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi ABU DHABI: It’s been in the planning phase for years, and now the much-discussed Louvre Abu Dhabi is finally becoming …

 

Breaking All the Rules With New York’s Public-Building Design

Breaking All the Rules With New York’s Public-Building Design

The Saratoga Avenue Community Center's exterior with its references to earlier styles. BROOKLYN Now that the age of irrational exuberance and outrageous excess is apparently over, …

 

The Kimbell’s New Michelangelo

The Kimbell’s New Michelangelo

Michelangelo, The Torment of St. Anthony, oil and tempera on wood panel, 1487-88 FORT WORTH Eric McCauley Lee is the new director of the Kimbell: LEE:“The …

 

With Newspapers In Terminal Decline, What Future For Arts Journalism?

With Newspapers In Terminal Decline, What Future For Arts Journalism?

Journalists in Hanover, Germany, protest over proposed job and wage cuts last October LONDON Before we succumb to nostalgia, let’s be clear: arts journalism has never …

 

Hirshhorn Will Sell 3 Works By Eakins

Hirshhorn Will Sell 3 Works By Eakins

The Hirshhorn will sell three of its paintings by Thomas Eakins, including this study for "Portrait of Mrs. Charles L. Leonard." (Courtesy Of Christie's) WASHINGTON …

 

A Real Vision In Gray

A Real Vision In Gray

Don't let the gray suit fool you: New Hirshhorn director Richard Koshalek, set against Ellsworth Kelly's 1968 work "Red Yellow Blue V," is not your …

 

Is Unesco Damaging The World’s Treasures?

Is Unesco Damaging The World’s Treasures?

Old Damascus, Syria: Dating back to the third millennium BC, Damascus is one of the longest continually-inhabited cities in the world, but much of its …

 

Louis Vuitton Suit Adds Fraud Allegation

Louis Vuitton Suit Adds Fraud Allegation

LOS ANGELES They may not have realized it, but the folks who snapped up as much as $4-million worth of limited-edition prints …

 

Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward opens at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York next month. The show presents 64 projects by …