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Art News, Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy

Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy. Drawings.

I use different kinds of materials on different kinds of projects. Today we can do things with steel and glass that we could not do before. flexible enough to change. ~Gottfried Bohm.

Art News

June 2021

How a family transformed the look of the European theater.

Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy.

This is a drawing from the Bibiena family of a courtyard, circa 1740.

The Bibienas is the focus of an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, dominated by Baroque theatrical design.

Morgan Library & Museum via The New York Times.

Open through Sept. 12 at the Morgan, “Architecture, Theater and Fantasy” is a small but exquisite show of drawings by the Bibiena family, which transformed theatrical design in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Organized around a promised gift to the museum of 25 Bibiena works by Jules Fisher, the Tony Award-winning Broadway lighting…