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Article: Catastrophe-proofing the Norton and De Young. (the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida and the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco, California)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
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By placing cultural treasures in the paths of hurricanes or earthquakes, coasts have obligated themselves to anticipate disaster and minimize its effects. At the renamed Norton Museum (formerly Norton Gallery), West Palm Beach, Fla., this has meant fitting out its renovated and expanded facility with "the only windows that passed the test of Hurricane Andrew. You can launch a telephone pole at them and they won't break," claims the museum's director, Christina Orr-Cahall. Best known for being toppled by the Mapplethorpe maelstrom, OrrCahall resigned her post as director of Washington's Corcoran Galler,v in December 1989, after her controversial decision to cancel the ...