{"id":2682,"date":"2011-11-08T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2011-11-10T12:11:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T18:11:57","slug":"building-a-masterpiece-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2011\/11\/building-a-masterpiece-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Final weeks to submit your Museum photos to Building a Masterpiece exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Art Museum exhibition honors Santiago Calatrava masterpiece<\/strong>
\nPublic can submit their photographs<\/a> of Milwaukee’s icon<\/em><\/p>\n

Milwaukee, Wis.<\/strong> \u2013 It has been named the sexiest building in the world, featured in TV ads and shows and Hollywood movies, and it has transformed the city of Milwaukee. In September, the Milwaukee Art Museum celebrates the 10th anniversary of its iconic building, the Quadracci Pavilion, with the exhibition Building a Masterpiece: Santiago Calatrava and the Milwaukee Art Museum<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Designed by internationally renowned architect Santiago Calatrava, the Quadracci Pavilion was the Spaniard\u2019s first completed commission in the United States. In 2001, it was named TIME Magazine\u2019s \u201cBest Design of 2001.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exhibition features watercolors and models by the architect\u2014works of art in themselves\u2014that track the evolution of the building\u2019s design,\u201d said Chief Curator Brady Roberts. \u201cThe watercolors have a stream-of-consciousness-like quality, as the imagery flows from humans to sails, to Lake Michigan, to uncanny representations of Windhover Hall, imagined at the very outset of Calatrava\u2019s design process in the mid-1990s. His models reveal the complex development of the moving wings of the Burke Brise Soleil, one of the most spectacular architectural elements in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Building a Masterpiece<\/em> further highlights the construction of the entirely custom-made project, a testament to Milwaukee\u2019s tradition of precision manufacturing and craftsmanship, through photographs, drawings, and models. Visitors will also be invited to submit their favorite photographs of the Museum<\/a>\u2014of its interior as well as its exterior. The best of these will be included in the exhibition, demonstrating how significantly the building has brought a sense of pride in, as well as international attention to, the city.<\/p>\n

Building a Masterpiece: Santiago Calatrava and the Milwaukee Art Museum<\/em> will be on view through January 1, 2012 and is presented by Donald and Donna Baumgartner, and Eileen and Barry Mandel.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM<\/strong>
\nThe Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s far-reaching holdings include more than 25,000 works spanning antiquity to the present day. With a history dating back to 1888, the Museum houses a collection with strengths in 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, contemporary art, American decorative arts, and folk and self-taught art. The Museum includes the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion, named by Time magazine as \u201cBest Design of 2001.\u201d For more information, please visit www.mam.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Art Museum exhibition honors Santiago Calatrava masterpiece Public can submit their photographs of Milwaukee’s icon Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 It has been named the sexiest building in the world, featured in TV ads and shows and Hollywood movies, and it has transformed the city of Milwaukee. In September, the Milwaukee Art Museum celebrates the 10th … Final weeks to submit your Museum photos to Building a Masterpiece exhibition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2737,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}