Local artist Gary L. Moore and his Pharaoh’s Dance at the Miami Performance Art Center. (nytimes)
Category: architecture
Miami Art Museum chose to hire…
Herzog & de Meuron ( via Critical Miami)
Now we’ll start making our specific architectural demands. First, we need to define the functions and programme for this new building.
Miami Art Museum and its new building
The Herald reported on recent development of the MAM‘s moves toward a new building. The Board of Trustees and Terence Riley went on a world tour studying museum buildings, taking notes on architects and creating their own short list. Because the Board is putting up the money to hire and pay the main architect, they will forgo a competition and they will simply hire one.
And so,
On Sept. 14, Riley plans to present the finalists’ names — and his single preferred choice — to a three-person selection panel. Panelists will debate, hear public comment and vote in an open session at the museum’s current downtown home.
At the selection meeting, Riley will discuss each finalist’s work ”and then explain in a convincing fashion hopefully to the public and the board why one particular candidate stands out in my mind,” he said. Riley said he has not settled on that name.
Once an architect is selected, Riley said he expects work to start ”the next day.” A conceptual design could be done in six months, with a final plan due in 2008.
This is potentially good. I hope the room will be packed with those who want to voice their opinions. There will be a building at Bicentennial and it will be built for a greater art-viewing public. My concerns are that we get a big ugly white elephant. I think this is an opportunity to erect a great civic building. Not a private and exclusive place, like a sport stadium or a condo or a club, but a truly public place, a place for the mass, a place for us all.
Something at LP
There have been quite a few discussions, around here, about this exhibition; mainly revolving about the show’s art historical lineage. I beleive that will be the structure of the discussion at Locust Projects. There are some pictures here and blurb here.
Something features the works of Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Nortberto Rodriguez, Tom Scicluna and Frances Trombly.
LOCUST PROJECTS PRESENTS
TALK ABOUT SOMETHING
A PANEL DISCUSSION ABOUT SOMETHING
PANEL PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE:
PETER BOSWELL
LEYDEN RODRIGUEZ-CASANOVA
NORBERTO RODRIGUEZ
TOM SCICLUNA
MODERATED BY:
KATHLEEN HUDSPETH
FRIDAY, JULY 28TH, 2006
FROM 7:00 TO 9:00 PM
LOCUST PROJECTS
105 NW 23RD STREET
MIAMI, FLORIDA 33127
305.576.8570
WWW.LOCUSTPROJECTS.ORG
charlie brown’s shirt
The zigzag line on the building.
The ad has to to with The World Cup, only 22 days away. I’ll have to find a way to watch some of the games. I ‘ll use the technique du jour (google and bittorrent). I also expect to see games via yourtube and yahoo webcast.
another wednesday night
These are from my walk in between cutting, glueing and drawing.
Morningside
There used to be a cool four to five-story office building on this lot. but no more. Some demolition companies reduces/returns the lots in state that would inspire guys like Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer and Richard Long.
So Monday ight, I took this a few images on this lot, located near Morningside(a Miami neighborhood).
atget
I stumbled upon a book discussing Eugene Atget and his photographs, at the library. The Miami Beach regional branch of the library is very nice. Many of the books on the shelf are still new.
Atget’s photographs of Parisian street scenes are very intriguing. Apparently, they are his most ‘famous’ images. Atget seem to have capture the city’s stillness and poise; the moment before the city is fully awake and engaged. I can image his routine which would lead him and his camera on a sineous path throughout Paris; chasing the light, attuned to the moment and poise to capture the next shot.
Here are two images, probably shot the same day( at least the same year, 1924). The websites that I snatched these images from are calling the building in the background “the parthenon.”
Correction: I misidentified the building in the imgaes as the ‘parthenon,’ it’s clearly identified as the ‘pantheon’. My architectural education didn’t thoroughly cover France of the 18th century; though, it did introduced me the works of Boullee, Ledoux and Lequec. Pantheon to me refers to a Roman temple, but it makes total sense that in the Neoclassical period that a building partly modelled on the Roman Pantheon would be designed and build in Paris. It pretty much functionned as a temple of great men of France–serving as a burial place to Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, Dumas and the Curies(Marie being the first woman buried there).
