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VIA NYT:
The Cleveland Museum of Art will open the first of three new wings designed by the architect Rafael Viñoly on Saturday, June 27, uniting two historically important buildings and creating new exhibition space. The 139,200-square-foot East Wing connects the museum’s original 1916 Beaux-Arts buildings, designed by Hubbell and Benes and a 1971 addition designed by Marcel Breuer. The museum’s collections of photography, modern and contemporary art, and 19th-century European sculpture, decorative arts and painting will be open to the public for the first time since 2005. When the renovation is completed in 2012, with two more new wings, an additional 200,000 square feet will have been added. The new space will include a 39,000-square-foot glass-enclosed atrium at the center of the complex, a new lifelong learning center, state-of-the art conservation studios and additional space for the Ingalls Library.
