ART

Once reviled as an act of architectural vandalism, Paris’ Georges Pompidou Center for the arts celebrated its 10th birthday on Saturday. But the center, usually known simply as “Beaubourg” after the neighborhood it dominates, no longer raises many eyebrows and has grown to become the city’s top attraction with 7.5 million visitors--61% of them French--annually. Originally intended for only a third as many visitors, the recently renovated center now draws three times as many people as the more austere Louvre Museum and twice as many as the Eiffel Tower.