Frank Lloyd Wright's Pink Guggenheim Plan Detailed in New Book on Architectural Color

Frank Lloyd Wright's original design for the Guggenheim called for a pink facade, a proposal Solomon Guggenheim rejected. New York authorities instead approved a Le Corbusier-style white scheme. British architect Adam Nathaniel Furman makes the case in Chromatic Architecture, a new book examining color in building, as reported by El País English. The revelation arrives alongside other art-world news: roughly 50 arts students blocked the Louvre's glass pyramid on Monday, forcing the museum to close on the eve of Art Basel Paris, and Stan Douglas's opening at the Jeu de Paume was canceled Sunday. Art Basel Miami Beach will remain in the city for now after officials balked at the fair's request to halve its nearly $1 million annual rent. Netflix disclosed box office figures for the first time: La Bola Negra, a Spanish-language queer drama, earned $277,500 across four theaters, about $69,375 per screen, and is expanding to as many as 300. CAA, WME and UTA, joined by Ron Howard and Jason Blum, are lobbying Congress to require Netflix, Disney, Amazon and Skydance to spend half their original budgets on independent producers. Playwright Jared Harbour counted American Theatre listings at 1,800 contemporary productions per season before the pandemic versus 1,300 now, and noted that Concord Theatricals, which acquired Samuel French in 2018 and now sits under Germany's Bertelsmann, holds nearly half of all second-and-later productions.