The art of the new
As Boston gets ready for the new ICA, a skeptic might ask: What's a contemporary art museum really for?
BESIDES TRANSFORMING a Basque industrial city into a tourist destination virtually overnight and dramatically enthroning Frank Gehry as the World's Greatest Architect, the opening of the Guggenheim Bilbao in 1997 marked a watershed in the history of the art museum. (Full article: 1742 words)
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