How Much Is That Renzo Piano Fee In The Window?

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A design collaboratively put together by Art students at  CSULB 

would have achieved the same–if not better–

results than what you see below

All new Renzo Piano-designed

Whitney Museum of American Art

reopens in New York

How big is the news for supporters of the Whitney

to credit a world-famous architect for the new look?

How small and embarrassing for supporters of the Whitney

if they had to give credit to a bunch of California students?

But the biggest and most undeniably measurable news

would be for the Whitney's budget controller.

Instead of paying $10 million dollars to a five-star architect,

it would cost $10 thousand dollars for the fifth-ranked

state university art school in the United States.

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Footnotes
The actual Piano bill of cost for the re-building of the Whitney Museum  was $422 Million.

Dollar-for-dollar in the United States,  it would be impossible to find a better Art School
than what is on the campus of  California State University at Long Beach.

The AFP photograph was taken by  D. Dipasupil.
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