Light and Space With big art for a small town and California dreaming

摘要

With this new venue and his Crystal Bridges Museum (see below right) opening in the coming weeks, the multinational architect Moshe Safdie is having a huge year. His Kauffman Center is a concert hall—two, actually— that looks like a concertina or maybe a pair of those puffy shoulders the Elizabethans favored. The Museum of Modern Art, New York City The most lavishly gifted of the Abstract Expressionists, Willem de Kooning knew better than any of them how painting could convey the abundance of nature and the sensuality of the body without depicting any recognizable thing. The Modern is giving him the royal treatment, bringing together a full sample of his paintings, drawings and sculptures for the first time. Opens