Recently Vanity Fair magazine conducted a not so scientific survey of Architecture’s Modern Marvels by asking 52 experts to list the five most important works of architecture created since 1980. After they compiled all the results, they put together a list of over 132 different structures. The magazine then published the top 21 results in a fascinating online slideshow. The best part of these results?

The Menil Collection designed by Renzo Piano ranked as the second most important new building in the world. How cool is that?

If you are a regular reader of the Hamilton Shirts 1883 blog, you know that I am a big fan of the museum and I try to pay them a visit any chance I can get. I love the Rothko Chapel, the Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall, the Cy Twombly Gallery, and of course, the special and permanent collections inside the main building.

Have you ever wandered around the museum (especially in the beautiful Twombly Gallery) and wonder how some of these gigantic works of art were installed? How did they ever get them inside? Was the building built around the work? How did the painting ever fit through the door?

Questions, answered:

Cy Twombly installation at the Menil Collection from The Menil Collection on Vimeo.

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