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A14 PEOPLE & ARTS
Friday 25 September 2020

Mirrored depot will open Dutch museum's storage to public

By MIKE CORDER est to compensate for the
Associated Press space the building takes
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands up in the park. He covered
(AP) — All the paintings, the concrete shell in mirrors
sculptures and other works to help it blend in with and
that grace museums and reflect its surrounds, but
galleries around the world also to put people, he says,
are the visible tip of a huge "in a reflective mode."
art iceberg. Most of the in- The depot, effectively the
stitutions only have space museum's engine room, is
to exhibit a fraction of their far more spartan than the
collections, meaning the main museum, next door,
majority of the art is locked which is currently closed for
away out of the public eye. a major restoration.
Rotterdam's Museum Boi- The depot will be a working
jmans Van Beuningen is environment, where pack-
changing that. ers prepare art for shipment
It is building a gleaming, and conservators work on
mirror-coated new depot paintings. All, now, in the
— a work of art in itself — public eye. It also will have
that will be open to the space for members of the
public next year once the public who want to store
collection of 151,000 art- A skateboarder in front of the new Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands, their art.
works is transferred. Thursday Sept. 24, 2020. The open nature of the
"You mount about 6% of Associated Press depot could be a security
the collection — it could worry, but Ex says the art is
be 10 — but then you have tive driving the project -- piece in a show of support a central atrium, and stair- safe.
90% in storage. What is the the old storage in the base- for the new building and to ways zigzag between the "You can see you have
public responsibility to not ment of the museum had help foot the bill of more different floors. cameras. You have very
show 90%?" the museum's become prone to flooding, than 90 million euros ($105 Architect Winy Maas, who strong glass doors. You
director, Sjarel Ex, told The putting priceless works of million). already won plaudits in have hidden secrets. And
Associated Press on Thurs- art at risk of water damage. The 39.5-meter (130-foot) Rotterdam for his spectac- we feel comfortable," he
day as he showed media The striking new depot in tall building has a roof- ular arch-shaped Market said when asked about se-
around the new depot be- the heart of Rotterdam's top forest of 75 birch trees Hall, said that the museum curity.
fore allowing members of Museum Park is covered that were grown at ground didn't want a Fort Knox- Visitors will have different
the public to take a look in 1,664 mirrored panels level so that their roots in- style storage space on the options — they can go di-
around in coming days. that reflect the park and tertwined to make them edge of town. rect to the roof garden, buy
"We know that this collec- the skyline of Rotterdam, stronger. Inside there are Instead, the new depot is a ticket to look around on
tion is cherished and that a city known as Manhat- five different climate zones in the middle of a park sur- their own or book a guided
it's important and that de- tan on the Maas — a name designed to protect the rounded by other museums tour that gives them closer
pots are very worthwhile, derived from the river that priceless collection of art in the center of the city. access to the people work-
obviously," Ex said. "But bisects the port city and its that ranges from fragile Maas decided to make the ing in the depot and the
when you cannot look at it, many high-rise buildings. glass to Old Master paint- building round — he didn't artworks.
you always have the kind Many of the glass panels ings and prints and modern want corners — with a base Empty racks already stand
of risk that it's out of sight, were adopted by local art installations. that is smaller than the roof, in some of the spaces wait-
out of mind." people and organizations Elevators glide up and to reduce its footprint. ing for the art to be moved
There was another impera- at 1,000 euros ($1,165) a down at either end of the He wanted the rooftop for- in.q

Disney delays 'Black Widow,' Spielberg's 'West Side Story'

full year in the company's Disney didn't entirely aban- Warner Bros.' "Wonder
latest recalibration due to don the season. The Pixar Woman 1984" moved from
the pandemic. release "Soul" remains on October to Christmas and
Ten of Disney's top films the calendar for late No- Universal Pictures' "Candy-
shuffled release dates vember. "The Empty Man," man" postponed to next
Wednesday, uprooting sev- a horror release from the year.q
eral of the company's ma- former 20th Century Fox, is
jor fall releases. The Scarlett moving up from December Solution Sudoku
Johansson Marvel movie to Oct. 23.
"Black Widow," last set for But the delays of Disney's
Nov. 6, heads to May 7 of upcoming blockbusters
next year. Instead of open- reinforce the growing exo-
This image released by Disney/Marvel Studios' shows Scarlett ing next month, Kenneth dus from 2020 among the
Johansson in a scene from "Black Widow." Branagh's murder mystery blockbusters that hadn't
Associated Press "Death on the Nile" moves already uprooted to next
to Dec. 18. That was the year. Following tepid ticket
By JAKE COYLE ies from Marvel, including date set for "West Side Sto- sales for Warner Bros.' "Te-
NEW YORK (AP) — The Walt "Black Widow," while also ry," but Spielberg's musical net" in a U.S. theatrical mar-
Disney Co. has further post- postponing Steven Spiel- will instead debut in De- ketplace where about 30%
poned its next mega-mov- berg's "West Side Story" a cember 2021. of cinemas remain closed, Puzzle on Page 13