Fifteen years ago if someone had shot a cannon from Fort Worth’s world-renowned museum district, nobody would have noticed, joked Lori Eklund, senior deputy director of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. But that has changed.
On a mid-September evening, a cool dry air settled on Fort Worth, denoting a change in the weather. It was just before dusk when the blue tarp walls came down that had for three years obscured the Kimbell's new construction like a tattered blue cocoon, momentarily revealing the Kimbell Art Museum's highly anticipated Piano Pavilion.
The symbiotic relationship between nature, light and architecture will soon be on display in a Mira Vista home sometime in 2014
“Like the old-time Indian lodges, [The Amon Carter] faces the rising sun on the ground that drops away to the East,” Esquire magazine published June 1961 shortly after the museum opened.
