Museum of Modern Art
Nouvel Tower 'Frightening': Assemblyman Gottfried Joins Anti-Nouvel Crowd
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried has come out against Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel’s tower planned to rise next to the Museum of Modern Art, joining neighbors and State Senator Liz Krueger in their opposition to the project. read more »
Sundance Castaways Find Home at Lincoln Center Film Festival
More than 3,600 features were submitted for the 2008 Sundance festival, meaning that there are about 3,500 rejected projects that will navigate the year's festival circuit. As castaways depart from Park City, Utah, many of them will find a home at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films festival, according to the New York Sun's James Snyder. "
In the best-case scenario, these rookies will catch the eye of a distributor and go on to tour the festival circuit before launching a theatrical campaign in the fall of 2008 or winter 2009 — maybe hitting New York and Los Angeles in December just in time to qualify for a nomination for next February's Academy Awards," he writes. read more »
New MoMA Tower to Rival Chrysler Building's Height
A new planned skyscraper next-door to MoMA, designed by Jean Nouvel, could bring a bit of architectural variety to the skyline along Sixth Avenue, known for its boxy, giant modernist towers.
The tower, revealed today by New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff, would rise to a staggering 75 stories on 54th Street just east of Sixth Avenue, tapering from a small base lot to an even smaller peak. read more »
