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• Preservation Watch: After much preservationist ballyhoo about MoMAs...

  
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  After much preservationist ballyhoo about MoMAs decision to demolish its American Folk Art Museum, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, the museum has started to backpedal. "Were going to try to create the best building we can create," Jerry Speyer, developer and MoMA chairman, told the Times. ...
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• Athens City Breaks – Give Your Vacation an Athenian Touch

  
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  Athens, the capital city of Greece, is stunningly surrounded by three hills and around 3.7 million people call it home.  Not standing on its laurels as a historic city this urban settlement has reinvented itself in a modern perspective and now it’s a prosperous country and proud host of 2004 Olympics. The city ...
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• Folk Art Museum Reconsidered

  
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  The American Folk Art Museum (Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times) After impassioned protests from prominent architects, preservationists and design critics, the Museum of Modern Art said on Thursday that it would reconsider its decision to demolish its next-door neighbor, the former home of the American Folk Art ...
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• Size Matters

  
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  "Put any of MoMA’s art in that building and it will die. And certainly contemporary art does not work there. Even granting that the Williams-Tsien facade is singular (I once compared it to a Kleenex box), the proponents of this building love it as an abstract ideal of a space for art, a platonic thing apart, a ...
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• Streetscapes | MoMA: MoMA’s History of Demolishing Potential Landmarks

  
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  The American Folk Art Museum isn’t the first important building to get in MoMA’s way.        
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• Tuesday Links: Chelsea, Croissants, and a Chicken

  
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  Complex lists Chelsea as the best art neighborhood in the world, for its diversity. They write of Hurricane Sandy that “even the little guys managed to find a way to stay afloat, a testament to the resilience and strength of the community.”  Among most notable galleries is Postmasters, which leaves next week to ...
  3 weeks ago

• ArtsBeat: Architects Announce Opposition to MoMA Plan for Former Museum Site

  
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  Architects have written a letter to the Museum of Modern Art asking it reconsider its decision to demolish the former American Folk Art Museum building in Manhattan.        
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• The Art of a Lifetime: Isabel Benavides and John Davis

  
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  If you have an hour or two this weekend, don’t miss a wonderful exhibition in Miraflores that spans some 60 years of creativity and craft by two artists who have made a rich contribution to the Peruvian art scene.   She a sculptor trained in Lima, Montreal and New York, and he a painter and [...]
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• Letter: As MoMA Expands, Not Everyone Is Cheering

  
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  Readers decry the demolition of the former American Folk Art Museum.        
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• Barry Bergdoll Breaks Silence About American Folk Art Museum

  
  ArchDaily — Authority: 590
  Among the  many ironies  of the  MoMA’s decision to demolish  Ted Williams and Billie Tsien’s 12-year old building for the American Folk Art Museum , is the most obvious: as a cultural institution, the MoMA is meant to value and protect, not demolish,  architecture. Critics such as  Justin Davidson  and  ...
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• Miscellany. 04.14.13.

  
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  MoMA to the American Folk Art Museum: Drop Dead. (Photo by Dan Nguyen/Flickr.) MoMA, a museum that has built its reputation on promoting modern architecture, has announced plans to raze the old American Folk Art Museum building designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien…to put up more retail or another restaurant. ...
  5 weeks ago

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