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Top25CulturedMiamiDecVer2_Layout 1 11/20/12 5:12 PM Page 49 Arik Levy's Rock Chamber 4 PETR KREJCI (GLITHERO) 3 ARIK LEVY'S EXPERIMENTAL GROWTH FOR LA FONDAZIONE BISAZZA IS CENTERED AROUND THE ROCK CHAMBER. TWENTY FIVE FEET LONG AND MORE THAN HEAD HIGH, THE FACETED STRUCTURE IS COVERED IN BISAZZA TILE. GUESTS WHO GO INSIDE FIND THE INTERIOR UPHOLSTERED IN KVADRAT FABRIC AND ILLUMINATED BY ONE OF LEVY'S FRACTALCLOUD LAMPS—THE RESULTING FEELING BEING THAT OF BOTH SPACESHIP AND CAVE. THROUGH DECEMBER 21, FONDAZIONEBISAZZA.IT Set on a 50-acre former mine yard overlooking the industrial city of Lens, the new regional annex of the Musée du Louvre, Louvre-Lens, represents the first foray into France by the Japanese architecture firm SANAA (with Imrey Culbert). SANAA's lapidary design is lighthanded, transparent and embracing. It consists of five structures— four rectangles and a grand square entry hall—positioned, according to the architects, like boats touching gently on a river, their immaterial and reflective façades inviting visitors in and capturing landscape designer Catherine Mosbach's park-like surroundings. louvrelens.fr. John Baldessari's Artist Towel NON-PROFIT ART PRODUCTION FUND started its Work on Whatever (WOW) series to challenge artists to produce works on unexpected surfaces— beach towels, water bottles, etc. For the seventh edition of the Artist Towel Series, conceptual godfather John Baldessari and British gestural-figure painter Cecily Brown take on the poolside canvas, launching during Art Basel at The Standard. worksonwhatever.com 5 CULTURED 49