Gallery News NY Met reopens American Wing
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, US has reopened its American Wing aſt er com- pleting a four-year renovation of the museum’s galleries of American art. The refurbi shment ,
designed by Connecticut- based project architects Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, included locating the entire American collection on one fl oor – it was previously spread across two fl oors – and the creation of an additional 3,300sq ſt (307sq m) of fl oor space. T e expansion has increased the total exhibition space to more than 30,000sq ſt (2,800sq m). T e American section now com- prises of 26 renovated and enlarged galleries on the museum’s second fl oor. A spokesperson for the museum said:
“T e new installation will provide visitors with a rich and captivating experience of the
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HALL 19, NEC BIRMINGHAM T e centrepiece of the gallery: Washington crossing the Delaware
history of American art from the 18th century through to the early 20th century. “T e suite of elegant new galleries encom-
passes 30,000sq ſt (2,788sq m) for the display of the museum’s superb collection.” T e centrepiece of the new installation is one
of the best-known works in all of American art, Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze’s 1851 painting W
ashington Crossing the Delaware. SFMOMA unveils detailed expansion plans
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in California, US has revealed detailed designs for its proposed expansion project, the scope of which has now been increased. T e attraction has revealed that it has raised its fundraising goal by 15 per cent
to US$555m (£354m, 411m). T is is to help create additional spaces for education, exhi- bitions and collections. Norway-based Snøhetta has worked with
SFMOMA and local architects EHDD to draw up the plans. Work will start in 2013.
Supported By US$30.5m arts museum for Stanford
Stanford University’s board of trustees has approved plans for a US$30.5m (£20m, €23m) arts museum which will house the university’s Anderson Collection. New York-based Ennead
Archite cts have been appointed to design the 30,000sq ft (2,788sq m) building – one of two new arts buildings at the institution. It will house dedicated
museum spaces and a pub- lic lobby, as well as offices, a conference room, a library/study area and space for storing art. Together with another new building – McMurtry Building, the future home of the Department of Art & Art History – the new museum will form the cor- nerstone of the university’s new arts district, the Stanford Arts Initiative.
AM 1 2012 ©cybertrek 2012 T e new arts museum will be on the Stanford University campus The core of the Anderson Collection,
121 works by 86 artists, is being donated to Stanford by Harry W and Mary Margaret Anderson, and Mary Patricia Anderson Pence – the Bay Aea family that collected the art over nearly 50 years. Construction work on the new museum will begin in late 2012.
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