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Escobedo Tallera Siqueiros at the Cultural Center in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2019.
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“The Fabricated Landscape,” opening June 26 at Carnegie Museum of Art, is designed to highlight the growing diversity and ingenuity in the field of contemporary architecture.
The exhibition will include installations from 10 international practices, many of which will be debuting new work for the first time in the United States.
“This is a very important moment for all of them,” said Raymund Ryan, curator-at-large for the Oakland museum’s Heinz Architectural Center, where the exhibition will run through Jan. 17.
Morrison Heckscher, Curator Emeritus of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, writes for Apollo Magazine: "With the death of Christopher Monkhouse (b. 1947), after a brief illness, on 12 January 2021, the Anglo-American decorative arts and architecture world has lost one of its most highly accomplished and beloved members. Christopher was a perfect exemplar of the old-fashioned, object-obsessed curator. Over some 40 years Christopher led three of the most .
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Obituary: Christopher P. Monkhouse
BRUNSWICK - Christopher P. Monkhouse, 73, the former chair of the European decorative arts department at the Art Institute of Chicago, .
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BRUNSWICK – Christopher P. Monkhouse, 73, the former chair of the European decorative arts department at the Art Institute of Chicago, died peacefully on Jan. 12, 2021 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House, Scarborough. The cause of death was a stroke.
Born in Portland on April 2, 1947, Christopher was the son of William A. Monkhouse, M.D., and Agnes Pruyn Linder Monkhouse. He attended Waynflete School, graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1965, and in 1966 studied English country houses at Attingham Summer School, Shropshire, England.