QUICK TAKES - June 20, 2009
The first new galleries from a big expansion at the Cleveland Museum of Art will open to the public on June 27.
The new galleries are part of an eight-year, $335-million renovation that will increase the museum’s size by 50%.
The expansion was designed by architect Rafael Vinoly, whose credits include convention centers in Pittsburgh and Boston, Philadelphia’s major performing arts center and the Tokyo International Forum conference center.
Vinoly’s design includes three wings and a glass atrium linking the buildings. The opening of the first wing, striped marble and granite with a glass-box gallery, will mark the return to public view of 19th century European, modern and contemporary art and photographs in storage since 2005.
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