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a href= https://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/ target= _blank The Fondation Beyeler /a ’s next collection display references Olafur Eliasson’
Installation view of Olafur Eliasson's Life installation at the Fondation Beyeler Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. © 2021 Olafur Eliasson, Photo: Mark Niedermann Usually when a museum is flooded with water, something has gone seriously wrong. But at the Fondation Beyeler just outside the Swiss city of Basel, the flooding of the museum is all part of the show: a new site-specific installation called Life by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. The artist has removed one side of the Renzo Piano-designed building (with the archit...
A rendering of Rosemaur Gallery, a proposed A$50m ($39m) new museum 40km east of Melbourne that would house works by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele as well as a bird sanctuary, a landscaped garden and a fine-dining restaurant © Architecture Associates When the Australian businessman Lindsey Hogg announced his intention to donate his A$500m ($380m) Modern art collection to the state of Victoria, it met with both surprise and suspicion. Not just because of the value of his collection, but because so few people knew that the billionaire, who owns two...
pcrossley@sungazette.com Library patrons in some of the more remote areas of the county are again able to enjoy the benefits of the LINK Libraries serving their communities as the “mini branches” reopened recently through an expanded partnership between the James V. Brown Library and the townships where they are located. Barbara S. McGary, executive director of the library, reported to the board of trustees at their meeting that the satellite locations at Barbours and Pine Creek are now open. The Barbours site is in Plunketts Creek Township and the Pine Creek facility is located in McHen...
The Palais de Tokyo in Paris, pictured here during the 2018-19 exhibition Carte Blanche to Tomás Saraceno, launched a Change.org petition to lift Covid-19 restrictions on French museums and galleries Photo: Alina Grubnyak Around 100 leading figures in the French art scene have published an open letter calling on the culture minister Roselyne Bachelot to lift Covid-19 restrictions on the country’s galleries and museums, allowing them to reopen “as widely and as soon as possible”. The Change.org petition, launched by the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, has garnered more th...