The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, announces its planned expansion into 29,000 square feet of former factory space owned by MASS MoCA in nearby North Adams. The two art institutions will embark on new collaborative programs. Some museum directors would feel sufficiently challenged by plans for two new buildings by Tadao Ando and a renovation of its existing building, to be designed by Annabelle Selldorf. No wonder Clark director Michael Conforti needs a sabbatical! More from the Boston Globe here.
Damien Hirst reportedly gets his $100 million for his diamond skull and imposes a novel condition on the unnamed investment group purchasing it, according to Linda Sandler of Bloomberg: two or three years of public display in museums. Does he stipulate which museums he deems acceptable and is he confident that museums will want to bestow their value-added prestige on this “investment”? Are there any resale royalties in this contract?
One more for the annals of discordant concert-hall performances: The Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, CA, is suing Cesar Pelli‘s architecture firm over cost overruns, delays and “design flaws that allegedly can’t be fixed, including obstructed sight lines, cramped quarters and a lack of legroom in certain seats,” reports Tony Illia in Engineering News-Record. Shades of the Philadelphia Kimmel Center-Rafael Viñoly contretemps.
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