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Article: Piazzoni Murals to Get New Home.(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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After more than two years of bitter dispute, 14 murals by Gottardo Piazzoni have finally been removed from their original home in the loggia of San Francisco's Old Main Public Library [see "Front Page," Apr., Nov. '97, Feb. '99]. The murals, which were installed in the '30s, were removed against the advice of preservation experts in order to accommodate the library's renovation and redesign by Italian architect Gae Aulenti, who was commissioned to convert the Beaux-Arts building into a new home for the city's Asian Art Museum.
On Sept. 30, a committee appointed by AAM director Emily Sano, including city arts commissioner Bill Meyer, Asian art commissioner Judy ...