The expansion, north to 40th Street and south to 33rd Street, will add exhibition space, a hotel and a ballroom.
The ambition: update the old building and add exhibition space along with a restaurant and store on the ground floor facing the plaza.
Over in west Wales, Aberystwyth University's £100m building programme includes redeveloping an old college on the seafront, to which there are plans to add exhibition spaces and artists' studios.
The complex of buildings in Murray Hill includes (among other things) the financier J. Pierpont Morgan's original library, completed in 1906, and a 2006 expansion by the architect Renzo Piano, who added exhibition space and a cafe.
For now, museum officials say, they plan to keep building their collections of bronzes and stone carvings, and may soon branch into ceramics and add another exhibition hall.
As for the gallery district, why not add an exhibition space atop the High Line, and model it, loosely, on the Vasari Corridor in Florence (another gallery running above the deck of a bridge)?
AS museums add online exhibitions and try to envelop visitors in virtual worlds, some are also taking steps to reinvent themselves as communities — places where people engage with one another, not just with computers.
It plans to add visiting exhibitions in the future, and a cafe is being built in the newly remodelled basement, set to open later this year.
Because L.A. is considered "the center of the zine universe," says Bronson, he invited the curator Darin Klein to organize "Zine World," a series of exhibitions and events focusing on cult classics like "Skate Fate" and "Bedwetter," while Printed Matter added an exhibition of pioneering zine makers like Raymond Pettibon, Dash Snow, Mark Gonzalez and Ari Marcopoulos.
He adds: "This exhibition shows that there are different ways of perceiving the world, and everyone's perception is unique.
Fazilet Hadi, RNIB group director of inclusive society, adds: "The exhibition provides a window on the talent, skills and creativity of blind and partially sighted people working in areas others may consider impossible without sight".
