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Show '• -•' S . I i 0 t'l .•"', /;'.".. ;"•' vow Wed/thurs/Fri, June 25-27, 2008 The Park Record C-10 A LE *•; r j ; ' y. i: ; Countrywide, museums revamping ir-j:; . A: •' By THOMAS J. SHEERAN Associated Press Writer L E RICHELLES SEMI ANNUAL SALE! JUNE 27 t o JULY 5 Save 40% & more on Women's Spring & Summer Designer Selections This is one sale your closet won't want to miss! I'll E >: 1' •.•:(.•[•!.. : , ,- -' '•- ( . : •i : / - ' . - : - v : s " ; - s; - . A1 • • ' r .• ' - • - ; • : - s r .;-A S I - ! : : ' L E ". A ; LE •• LE RICHELLES L E •; ~ ;• S f ' :v A ; 'A LE A - • L • 4699 South Highland Drive Salt Lake City, UT (801)272-3111 Hours: Mon-Sat 1Qam-6pm CLEVELAND (AP) Art museums throughout the country have gone on a construction binge as older institutions freshen up and expand and fast-growing cities, especially in the Sun Belt, tap into new wealth to show they have arrived in the art world. Old or new, art museums also are striving to compete better with shopping malls and other leisure-time activities. "Museums are in a transition ' moment," said Anne Helmreich, associate professor at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University. The Cleveland Museum of Art is nearing the halfway point of one of the biggest projects, a seven-year, $350 million expansion and renovation of a renowned institution that opened in 1916 with money from industrial magnates. The museum, located in the city's tree-lined University Circle arts and education district, on June 29 will reopen 19 galleries that have been closed for three years. Elsewhere, the $158 million renovation of the Detroit Institute of Arts debuted last fall, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened the $156 million first phase of an expansion in February, the Art Museum of Western Virginia moves to a new $66 million home on Nov. 8 and Sacramento's Crocker Art Museum is working on an $85 million expansion. Detroit's renovation arranged European masterpieces to tell the story of an 18th-century grand S HA B U Free Sushi* 4.00 SAKES and $3.00 *?Full The Art Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke, Va., saw that happen, according to executive director Georganne C. Bingham. "What we're seeing is people who are moving into the region are excited about the arts," she said, including expanded museum memberships and donor rolls. An art museum can reflect a community's sense of having arrived, said Case's Helmreich. "A city reaches a certain critical size, then you've got both the financial resources and also the intellectual resources, the com* munity goodwill, to want to have a museum and support it." A makeover also can reinvigorate oltMifie museums. The reopened museum at Detroit drew 400,000 visitors - normally a year's worth - in six months. "Many people have this extraordinary desire to connect with works Of art," said DIA director Graham W.J. Beal, who said people "do1 not want a malllike experience' when they go to a museum. In Cleveland, more than $204 million has been raised for a project lasting into 2012, one year more than first planned. The expansion and renovation will unravel a sometimes confusing labyrinth of galleries and corridors to create a more visitor friendly feel for what's ahead in a museum with a collection of 43,000 items, including works by Rodin, Monet, Degas, Gauguin, Renoir and van Gogh. For art patrons, "It means that they're not going to have to spend as much time figuring out whero thdV ttfe, that they'll bts reassured by What they oan see OFF • Continued from C-8 IS RECOMMENDED CLOSED MONDAYS 2nd Level Main St. Mall - 333 Main Street, Park City CALL 645-SAKE (7253) shorts and rubberized - or were they patent leather? - Bermudas made one yearn for Armani the tailor. Earlier Saturday, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana underlined the relaxed feel of these previews with a series of silk bathrobes and boxer shorts - the utmost in the luxury of indolence. Models walked down the runway of the designers1 theater in downtown Milan wearing pinstriped suits as loose and easy as silk pajamas. Their horn-rimmed eyeglasses and leather sandals told a tale of a contemporary business man who can combine beach and office with ease. When home he might be lucky enough to find his better half in a Dolce&Gabbana robe number, ahead of them," Jeffrey W. Strean, CMA director of design and architecture, said during a hard-hat tour. That should relieve visitor fatigue, he said. "Hopefully, we've built into the finished project places to stop - not only amenities - but places just to stop and rest, places to find out more, places to eat, places to shop,1' he said. World-class art must compete With shopping malls and "every Other sort of entertainment for folks these days," Strean said. u We have to kind of make it as unobstructed and comfortable a thing as it can be." But the art always comes first, according to Wilson of the Nelson-Atkins. "If you do not have in some way on your terms a meaningful relationship in those galleries, With works of artr the coffee isn't enough to bring you back," he Said. "There are too many places where you can get coffee today." Part of that transition is a trend toward making museums more community friendly, reflecting local interests and traditions, such as the southern Appalachian music and crafts programming oi the Roanoke museum. The goal is to attract visitors and keep them for longer stays. "Museums are very complex institutions," said Saul Ostrow, who teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art. "They are not just warehouses, storehouses of aft. They are educational institutions, they ate social, they bring people together. They imbue values and standards to the commuflltyi They offer a whole other iailge of experiences." »/•• Barack Obania inspires Milan DISCOUNT With the PUJT tour of Italy. The Los Angeles project, part of a multiyear redesign of its 20-acre campus, highlights the museum's contemporary collection. There's more. In a survey last year involving 167 museums, the Association of Art Museum Directors said 66 percent were moving ahead with expansions, the highest share in three years. Most museums reported increased attendance, overall revenue and endowment income. The construction surge amid a sour economy reflects the longrange planning involved. Museums often develop projects years in advance and have much of the needed money in hand from deep-pocketed donors before work begins. Peter Yesawich, chairman of the Ypartnership travel industry, marketing agency in Orlando, Fla., said museums can expect an attendance bounce with a new project, but it won't necessarily last. He said a museum face lift's impact on attendance in a tight economy may depend on pricing, the public response and how long it takes to see the collections. Still, the pattern of museum construction has spread across the nation, said Marc Wilson, director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo,, which opened a $196 million expansion last year. Planning began in 1993. Wilson said the 75-year-old Nelson-Atkins, like Cleveland's museum, needed updating and more space. In other, newer cities, art museums have sprung up as wealth migrates to fastgrowing areas, especially the Sun Belt, he said, just like the one Naomi Campbell flaunted for the show's finale. Also showing Saturday, Christopher Baliey for Burberry embraced the easy life for next summer wrinkling everything from jacket to trench coat before it gets crumpled in a suitcase or soaked in the raifl. Typically British, the summer Burberry man can't part with his cardigan - this round so light it ay style can hardly be called sensible - and his traditional hat, the latest Vefsion a cross between Paddington Bear and a scarecrow. To complete the first day of showings, . the minimalist Jil Sander label presented its take on the current casual look: Jackets cut dose to the body in color blocks like a Mondrian print with zippers instead of buttons for an extra cool fit. 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