The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth unveiled the final design by Renzo Piano Building Workshop for a new museum building west of its existing building, which was designed by Louis I. Kahn.

the Kimbell also presents a revolution — in the way art museums handle sunlight. Piano was certainly influenced by this in his design of the Nasher Sculpture Center, the de Menil Museum in ...

A happy exception is the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, which looks even fresher and bolder now than when it opened 50 years ago in October 1972. The building sits in the city’s ...

FORT WORTH — The Kimbell Art Museum, designed by the legendary architect Louis Kahn, is beloved like few other museums built in the past century. Opened in 1972, it finessed all of the design ...

FORT WORTH - Kimbell Art Museum director Eric M ... the eloquence of Piano's response to the world's most influential museum design. In a sense, it completes Kahn's composition.

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. Photo by Robert Polidori View of facade looking south, Renzo Piano Pavilion, September 2013. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. Photo by Robert Polidori View ...

Lee, the director of Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum ... mastermind behind its design, Louis Kahn. “Already then, I thought the Kimbell was the most exciting museum in the country,” Lee ...

Architect Louis I. Kahn, seen here circa 1972, was selected to design the Kimbell Art Museum thanks to his unique ability to control natural light.(Robert C. Lautman / Kimbell Art Museum ...

The Kimbell Art Museum’s yearslong quest to own a still-life painting by Jean Siméon Chardin has come to an end. The Cut Melon, a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Louis Kahn’s Kimbell Art Museum ... s action design even resonated on the movie screen. The James Bond thriller The World is Not Enough (1999) opened with an ...

Jean Siméon Chardin's 1760 painting The Cut Melon is officially headed to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, after a failed attempt to win it at auction. Last June, the Chardin painting set ...

The Kimbell Art Museum has earned a reputation as one of ... Pavilion (named for Italian architect Renzo Piano, who helped design Paris' famous Centre Pompidou) in 2013 has made the Kimbell ...