Saturday, October 7, 2006


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DENVER'S
$90-MILLION
ART MUSEUM
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Wow! That's a lot of money.

The new
DENVER ART MUSEUM
opens today.

Designed by Libeskind, it's sort of a Bilbao that got transmuted into the sharp corners of a triangle, which replace the rounded curves of Gehry's Museum. I've never cared much for the Bilbao, but its saving grace has always been the immense interior exhibition spaces that invite evolutionary works of art.

In comparison, The Denver Museum's interior seems
narrow-in-concept and filled up
with all kinds of walls and other obstacles to what might have been a similar, wide-open sense of freedom.

What do you think of the exterior design?

It 's not a work of beauty or grace or magesty or peace.
It's disturbing.
It's very much in your face.
It dares you to object to its attack, and makes no attempt to be loved or revered.
Oh well........the good thing about all these really crass new forms of architecture, is that they'll invite dramatic changes from the age-old, ugly box-buildings of yesterday. So in that way, I always think of them as a positive force which will eventually find that one exceptional architect who can profit from their invitation to greatness. Someone who'll design an edifice that DOES contain beauty, grace, magesty, and peace!

Yeah.....I'm a perpetual optimist.

I have trust in the future.

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