An article in the New York Times acknowledged that when Holly Hotchner first became the director of the institution ten years ago "few people seemed to have heard of it."
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The museum's new location was developed by Brad Cloepfil and his Portland, Oregon-based firm Allied Works Architecture.
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However, the museum's plans to radically alter the building's original design by Edward Durell Stone touched off a preservation battle joined by Tom Wolfe, Chuck Close, Frank Stella, Robert A. M. Stern, Columbia art history department chairman Barry Bergdoll, New York Times' architecture critics Herbert Muschamp and Nicolai Ouroussoff, urbanist scholar Witold Rybczynski, among others.
Bachelor of Arts | British Museum | Museum of Modern Art | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | American Museum of Natural History | Master of Arts | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Victoria and Albert Museum | Natural History Museum | Electronic Arts | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Honolulu Museum of Art | museum | Whitney Museum of American Art | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design | National Air and Space Museum | Brooklyn Museum | National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts | Hermitage Museum | National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame | Institute of Contemporary Arts | École des Beaux-Arts |
Award in 2005 from the Museum of Arts and Design, the 2004 Gold Medal Award from the National Retail Federation (considered the highest honor in retailing), and, in 2002, appointment as a “Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur” by the French government for his promotion of French-made merchandise in America.
Amerman's work is in such public collections as the George Gustav Heye Center, the National Museum of the American Indian, the American Museum of Natural History, the Heard Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the Sequoyah National Research Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the Museum of Arts and Design.
, Curator: David McFadden, Museum of Art and Design, New York City