My WSJ Appraisal of Kimbell Art Museum’s New Piano Pavilion

In my Wall Street Journal piece today, How the Kimbell’s Piano Pavilion Interacts with the Art, I mention that concrete is rarely used as a wall on which to hang art and that the material’s “characteristic mottling, splotches and ‘telegraphing’ (dark horizontal striations caused by metal reinforcing bars inside the concrete) distract from a focus on the art.”

Here’s a look at the wall to the right of one of the museum’s most celebrated paintings:

I’ll be posting a lot more show-and-tell on my blog, Including a slideshow of works I discuss in my piece, once I get home (if this person ever stops trying to stuff her suitcase in the overhead).