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Monday, August 28, 2006

Things I Missed

Posted by on August 28 at 10:49 AM

Back from Maine, from swimming with the American eel in a pond that seemed large enough to be a lake and lacked scum entirely, and catching up on the news.

Seattle Art Museum spokeswoman Erika Lindsay this morning says that with the concrete strike over, SAM is moving forward with construction on the Olympic Sculpture Park. “We will hopefully be announcing the new opening date for the park after Labor Day.”

Portland Art Museum hired a director, a man from Tulsa.

Two new pieces of architecture to chew on, museums in Toledo (LATer Christopher Hawthorne compares artistic and architectural minimalism, and declares triumph) and Denver (Paul Goldberger expresses whiplash-inducing ambivalence about Libeskind).

(The Toledo museum contrasts with the Museum of Glass by Arthur Ericksen in Tacoma. Toledo’s Glass Pavilion is thin—its utility systems are underground or in a nearby building—light, and, well, glassy, whereas Ericksen’s Tacoma monument is thick, the museum itself set underneath a heavy burden of concrete and steel so that it feels as though it is underground.)


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Take that Oklahoma! You may have gotten the Sonics, but we got your Museum Director (sort-of)! Don't fuck with the northwest!

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