Comments on: Denver Art Museum http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/10/denver-art-museum.html Images and writing about my abstract contemporary textile art by Lisa Call. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:13:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Lisa Call http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/10/denver-art-museum.html#comment-4159 Lisa Call Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:01:16 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/10/denver-art-museum.html#comment-4159 Patty - good to get your view point on the project. DAM is all titanium - no glass. Hopefully it won't leak on some awesome art! Cynthia - I've just been reading about the building and all the different opinions - how cool for you to have some more connection to some of the people not directly in the art world that are concerned. Here at work the geeks don't even know they built a new museum. Patty - good to get your view point on the project. DAM is all titanium - no glass. Hopefully it won’t leak on some awesome art!

Cynthia - I’ve just been reading about the building and all the different opinions - how cool for you to have some more connection to some of the people not directly in the art world that are concerned. Here at work the geeks don’t even know they built a new museum.

]]> By: Cynthia http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/10/denver-art-museum.html#comment-4129 Cynthia Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:07:18 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/10/denver-art-museum.html#comment-4129 A couple of weekends ago, we were going to go to a member party but an emergency came up and we didn't get to go. Lucky you for getting to go before the crowds! I am so excited to see the new wing and frankly more art including contemporary art. My husband works across the street from the Museum and Library and I've watched construction on it for the past 2 years. It has been interesting and fun to watch the progress. A good friend of mine is an architect and I just found out that one of the women I run with on Saturday mornings is the head of Historic Denver so I have been talking about Daniel Libeskind for awhile now and the star quality that he brings to the project...good or bad? They have 2 different viewpoints on the project and it's interesting to listen to their perspectives. As for myself, I can't wait to see the museum project, though I think he needs to leave Civic Center Park alone. I just mentioned to my husband that we should go to the museum this weekend because it will be open 35 hours straight. He didn't believe me, so I had to pull up the website to confirm. I love the quotes you included! I'll look for the artwork and artists that you mentioned. A couple of weekends ago, we were going to go to a member party but an emergency came up and we didn’t get to go. Lucky you for getting to go before the crowds! I am so excited to see the new wing and frankly more art including contemporary art.

My husband works across the street from the Museum and Library and I’ve watched construction on it for the past 2 years. It has been interesting and fun to watch the progress.

A good friend of mine is an architect and I just found out that one of the women I run with on Saturday mornings is the head of Historic Denver so I have been talking about Daniel Libeskind for awhile now and the star quality that he brings to the project…good or bad? They have 2 different viewpoints on the project and it’s interesting to listen to their perspectives. As for myself, I can’t wait to see the museum project, though I think he needs to leave Civic Center Park alone.

I just mentioned to my husband that we should go to the museum this weekend because it will be open 35 hours straight. He didn’t believe me, so I had to pull up the website to confirm.

I love the quotes you included! I’ll look for the artwork and artists that you mentioned.

]]> By: Patty Altier http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/10/denver-art-museum.html#comment-4126 Patty Altier Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:48:02 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/10/denver-art-museum.html#comment-4126 Being in construction management and being a very pratical person, all those funky angles makes me cringe. Yes, it looks very cool but it is a budget buster and a maintenance nighmare. The Akron Art Museum is going thru an addition right now (all funded with private money) with angles and lots of curtainwall (glass) too. I will be excited to see it re open next year, but am concerned about the future costs with the possiblity of constant maintenance with leaking like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland goes thru with the pyramid of curtainwall. I hope I am wrong, but this direction that architecture is going scares me. Being in construction management and being a very pratical person, all those funky angles makes me cringe. Yes, it looks very cool but it is a budget buster and a maintenance nighmare. The Akron Art Museum is going thru an addition right now (all funded with private money) with angles and lots of curtainwall (glass) too. I will be excited to see it re open next year, but am concerned about the future costs with the possiblity of constant maintenance with leaking like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland goes thru with the pyramid of curtainwall. I hope I am wrong, but this direction that architecture is going scares me.

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