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Frank Lloyd Wright’s plans for the Guggenheim called for pink, but Solomon Guggenheim wasn’t convinced, and New York authorities approved the Le Corbusier-style white instead. British architect Adam Nathaniel Furman argues the case in Chromatic Architecture, a new book on color in building (El País English).
About 50 arts students blocked the Louvre’s glass pyramid on Monday and closed the museum, on the eve of Art Basel Paris. Stan Douglas’s opening at the Jeu de Paume was canceled Sunday (ARTnews).
Art Basel Miami Beach is staying put for now, after the city balked at the fair’s demand to halve its nearly $1 million annual rent (The New York Times). Las Vegas anyone?
Netflix reported box office for the first time: La Bola Negra, a Spanish-language queer drama, took $277,500 in four theaters, about $69,375 a screen, and heads to as many as 300 now (Los Angeles Times). CAA, WME and UTA, with Ron Howard and Jason Blum, are lobbying Congress to make Netflix, Disney, Amazon and Skydance spend half their original budgets on independent producers (The New York Times).
Playwright Jared Harbour counted American Theatre’s listings: 1,800 contemporary productions a season before the pandemic, 1,300 now. Concord Theatricals, which bought Samuel French in 2018, now sits under Germany’s Bertelsmann and holds nearly half of all second-and-later productions (Jared Harbour’s Substack).
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