The revamped Cleveland Museum of Natural History sets new sustainability standards.
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History unveiled a $150 million transformation, expanding its campus to feature immersive, reimagined exhibition sapces. Designed by DLR Group, the building’s architecture reflects regional geological history and achieved LEED v4 Platinum certification for its pioneering sustainability features, including energy efficiency and bird-friendly design.
The internet still can’t get enough of Walmart’s blatant knockoff of Hermès’ Birkin bag.
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History unveiled a $150 million transformation, expanding its campus to feature immersive, reimagined exhibition sapces. Designed by DLR Group, the building’s architecture reflects regional geological history and achieved LEED v4 Platinum certification for its pioneering sustainability features, including energy efficiency and bird-friendly design.
Architecture drama The Brutalist swept this year’s Golden Globes with multiple wins.
The Brutalist, a 215-minute epic directed by Brady Corbet, earned the Golden Globe for Best Film, Drama, and cemented itself as a major contender for the Oscars. The visually striking film, shot in 70mm and VistaVision, also brought Corbet a Best Director win and Adrien Brody a Best Actor award for his portrayal of a mid-century designer. Corbet highlighted the film’s unlikely success, describing it as a bold artistic risk once deemed “un-distributable.”
John Singer Sargent’s heiress portraits will travel to London in May of 2025.
John Singer Sargent’s portraits of American heiresses, derisively called “dollar princesses,” chronicled their social power and audacity as they married into British aristocracy. A new exhibition at Kenwood House in London showcases 18 of these works, celebrating their individuality while examining the subtle misogyny and cultural tensions they navigated. Curator Wendy Monkhouse highlights the women’s achievements and how Sargent blended American vitality with British aristocratic portraiture traditions to immortalize their complex legacies.
An act of vandalism at Kunstverein Hamburg is being investigated as a hate crime.
Phoebe Collings-James’s installation “red earth, blood earth, blood brother earth [kick dirt]” at Kunstverein Hamburg was vandalized when a visitor erased the word “Palestine” from its clay surface. The act, viewed as a hate crime, contrasts the work’s intent to provoke reflection on global conflicts and land politics. Collings-James criticized the incident as emblematic of ongoing erasure and called for museums to actively oppose systemic violence and colonial legacies.
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