Virtuoso Life - July/August 2008 - (Page 28) LUXE REPORT HISTORICAL VIEW Ode to a Grecian Return Putting the Acropolis back together is a challenge of Humpty Dumpty proportions. For years the artifacts and sculptures were housed in various museums at home and abroad. Now the New Acropolis Museum, slated to open by the end of the year, unites Greece’s 4,000-piece collection – including the Parthenon Marbles, companions to the Elgin Marbles still held at the British Museum. The skylit and column-filled space evokes the classic temple, which it faces from a public viewing terrace. Glass floors allow visitors to see the archaeological excavation, beneath the museum, of an early Athens neighborhood dating to 3000 bc. www.newacropolismuseum.gr Underground scene: Athens’ new museum. CaixaForum and its vertical garden in Madrid. LIVING MURAL POWER TO THE ARTS Madrid has added to its art-walk district with a new gallery and concert hall, CaixaForum Madrid, not far from the freshly expanded Prado Museum. Swiss design team Herzog & de Meuron has transformed an 1899 power station into a venue for traveling shows, but its permanent attraction is the 5,000-square-foot vertical garden of 15,000 plants, designed by botanist Patrick Blanc. Paseo del Prado, 36; 34-91/330-73-00 Virgin Atlantic’s Upper Class Wing at Heathrow. HOT TICKET Curvy Looks It’s been 15 years since Anish Kapoor has had an exhibit in the U.S. In the interim the British sculptor has become an art-world star for abstract and often monumental works; he’s best known for the reflective, kidney-bean-shaped Cloud Gate at Chicago’s Millennium Park. This summer the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston will showcase 13 of his works from the past three decades, including 1000 Names, an arrangement of objects on the floor shaped with pigment powder, as well as new work in wax. Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future runs through September 7. www.icaboston.org (MUSEUM) FUNDACIO LA CAIXA, (UNTITLED SCULPTURE) ANISH KAPOOR Tune in to Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art for Anish Kapoor. 28 V I RT U O S O L I F E http://www.newacropolismuseum.gr http://www.icaboston.org
For optimal viewing of this digital publication, please enable JavaScript and then refresh the page. If you would like to try to load the digital publication without using Flash Player detection, please click here.