Walker in the NY Times...
Apr. 15th, 2005 08:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lsandersonAn Expansion Gives New Life to an Old Box
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
MINNEAPOLIS
"EVEN amid all the jostling institutional egos - with one museum after another gushing about ambitious expansion plans - it's hard not to get excited about the Walker Art Center's new home.
For decades now, the Walker has been one of the liveliest museums in the country, an institution that maintained a strong independent voice despite its ties to the mainstream art world. When the museum hired the Swiss team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron to design a $67 million expansion and renovation of its existing 1970's-era building, it seemed like a match made in heaven. The architects had built their reputations on museum projects like London's Tate Modern and the Goetz Collection in Munich, known for their meticulously refined materials and a sense of inner tranquillity."
Probing Fringes, Finding Stars
By HOLLAND COTTER
"MINNEAPOLIS — EVENTUALLY, I guess, our contemporary art museums will have to start throwing stuff out. Art schools keep pumping out artists; artists keep pumping out art. But exhibition and storage space is harder and harder to find. Something's got to give. Those paintings that for some reason made sense in the 1970's; those floor-hogging 1990's installations; those drawings bought by the peck last year - sooner or later they'll just have to go. "
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
MINNEAPOLIS
"EVEN amid all the jostling institutional egos - with one museum after another gushing about ambitious expansion plans - it's hard not to get excited about the Walker Art Center's new home.
For decades now, the Walker has been one of the liveliest museums in the country, an institution that maintained a strong independent voice despite its ties to the mainstream art world. When the museum hired the Swiss team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron to design a $67 million expansion and renovation of its existing 1970's-era building, it seemed like a match made in heaven. The architects had built their reputations on museum projects like London's Tate Modern and the Goetz Collection in Munich, known for their meticulously refined materials and a sense of inner tranquillity."
Probing Fringes, Finding Stars
By HOLLAND COTTER
"MINNEAPOLIS — EVENTUALLY, I guess, our contemporary art museums will have to start throwing stuff out. Art schools keep pumping out artists; artists keep pumping out art. But exhibition and storage space is harder and harder to find. Something's got to give. Those paintings that for some reason made sense in the 1970's; those floor-hogging 1990's installations; those drawings bought by the peck last year - sooner or later they'll just have to go. "
