Together, these twin centres will form a 38,000-square metre artistic "campus".
When the scaffolding comes down around the Prado next year, this temple of old masters will change from a single, sprawling building into an artistic campus, in the words of the project's architect, the Pritzker-winning Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, who designed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
-How might PrattStore contribute to the artistic community both on- campus and off?
There have been sporadic controversies over what kinds of curriculum, outside speakers, campus clubs and artistic expressions are acceptable at Catholic colleges and universities.
The intellectual and artistic ferment on the Chicago campus did stimulate him, though, and he began to come to grips with his destiny when he joined practically every theatre group in sight.
With a mission to serve both the college campus and the artistic culture of the Hudson River Valley - the "Cradle of American Art" - the Dorsky is unlike any other regional museum.
The museum itself claims even higher figures, but Mr Sheppard surmises that its boosters have arrived at their numbers by counting the workers and revenues of non-artistic tenants at the MASS MoCA "campus"—including lawyers, publishing firms.I ask if this city is a special case, perhaps propelled by the engines of the unusual number of cultural institutions that surround it.
But for months, East Village residents and local elected officials have criticized the plan, saying that the large-scale development would turn their eclectic, artistic neighborhood into a sterile business campus.
At the Florence International Theater Company, where I am co-artistic director, we started the Creative Campus program to address this issue.
He even dabbled in urban planning, lending his artistic vision to designs of university campuses and city centres.
For the last three-quarters of a century, the San Francisco area alone has been a source of some of the most influential artistic, social and technological movements: Beats, hippies, campus protests, regional cuisine, gay culture, Silicon Valley and more.
