(Pier Paolo Cito / AP) The building itself — a sleek, windowed box on top of a box — is made of cement walls, steel stairs and a glass roof, giving the galleries a neutral backdrop illuminated by filtered natural light.
New Italian Museum Has Eye Toward Art’s Future
NOVEMBER 19, 2009Associated Press
Italy is opening its first national museum for contemporary arts and architecture in a bid to shed its image as merely a keeper of a glorious artistic past.Read the story: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33914346/The museum is designed to be a research workshop of sorts, not just exhibiting contemporary art and architecture but incorporating contemporary design, fashion, film and advertising in a multidisciplinary cultural center.
