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Article: The museum: lights on, nobody home? (delayed opening of the Contemporary Art Museum in Barcelona, Spain)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 1995
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Amid widespread talk that the museum as an institution is "in crisis," the Tapies Foundation last spring mounted an exhibition and symposium to examine the evidence.
Richard Meier's new contemporary art museum in Barcelona emerges from the twisting streets and dingy apartment houses of the Raval neighborhood like an apparition. An artful mix of pure white planes and clear glass walls, it rises from an expansive, empty plaza that contrasts sharply with the more congested building plan of the surrounding area. The unreality of the situation is accentuated by the fact that, but for a ground-floor display of drawings and architectural models of the building itself, the ...
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