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Frick Collection to create new gallery
The building was designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban £61m Pompidou-Metz opens
Centre Pompidou-Metz, the offshoot of Paris’s famous Pompidou Centre, has opened in France. The €70.8m (£60.8m, US$89m) new centre, located in the north eastern city of Metz, is the fi rst provincial branch of the famous art gallery. Owned by Communauté
d’Agglomération de Metz Métropole, the building was designed by Japan-based Shigeru Ban Architects (SBA) in part- nership with French architect Jean de Gastines. The centre will boast paintings, sculptures, installations, graphic arts,
New building for Whitney Museum
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York is to construct a new building in downtown Manhattan, with work commencing in May 2011. Situated in the Meatpacking District on Gansevoort Street between West Street and the High Line (a linear park created on the route of an old railway track), the six-storey, 195,000sq ft (18,116sq m) building – designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano – will provide the Whitney with essential new space for its collection, exhibitions, and education and per- forming arts programmes. Fundraising for the structure has
already reached US$372m (£257m, €304m), 63 per cent of the museum’s US$590m (£407.6m, €481.6m) target.
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photography, video, sound works, fi lm, architecture, design and more within its 5,000sq m (107,000sq ft) of gallery space – by artists including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. The arts centre will include public areas in addition to the many exhibition areas, a creative studio for projections and performances, an auditorium, a bookshop- boutique, and a restaurant-cafeteria. The Pompidou-Metz is the cornerstone
project of an ambitious urban renewal pro- gramme of the city of Metz.
New York’s Frick Collection is revisit- ing an idea fi rst mooted almost 100 years ago to create a permanent gal- lery dedicated to sculpture and the decorative arts. This will be achieved by enclosing an under-utilised section of the prop- erty on East 70th Street, the portico in the Fifth Avenue Garden, which is visible from inside the house but not open to the general public. Pending approval by the Landmarks
Preservation Commission, the enclo- sure of the portico, set back from the original limestone columns and cor- nice, will create a new gallery within the existing footprint of the institu- tion. It is anticipated that construction will begin in the autumn of this year, with an expected completion date of September 2011. A private foundation will fund the project and the Frick is raising endowment funds to support the costs of the new gallery. New York-based Davis Brody
Bond Aedas Architects and Planners (DBBA) will be undertaking the enclo- sure of the portico.
Revamp for Baltimore Museum of Art
Following the award of a four-year US$10m (£6.7m, €8.1m) funding package from the State of Maryland, US, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) is to commence a US$24m (£16m, €19.4m) revamp project. The project includes renovating galleries
for three major art collections – contempo- rary, American, and African – in addition
to improving visitor facilities and upgrad- ing essential infrastructure. The work is expected to be completed in 2014 in time for the BMA’s 100th anniversary. Capital contributions to ‘In A New Light: The Campaign for The Baltimore Museum of Art’ will fund the renovations. The state has appropriated US$2.5m (£1.7m, €2m) in capital funding for 2011, with an addi- tional U$7.5m (£5.1m, €6.1m) projected to follow over the next three years. The BMA must match each US$2.5m alloca- tion from the state in order to receive the capital funds. So far, more than US$2m (£1.3m, €1.6m) toward the state match has been raised from public and private funds, including US$1.25m (£844,703, €1m) in bonds approved by the City of Baltimore.
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An additional US$1.2m (£811,828, €971,411) in city bond funding will be on the ballot in November 2010.
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