"The year's biggest and best visual art story was the completion of a 10-year dream by the Portland Art Museum: November's grand opening of the Mark Rothko Pavilion, connecting the museum's two main buildings, and a hugely successful refurbishing of the older spaces, all at a cost of $116 million. The reconceived campus not only reinvigorated the museum, it also gave Portland's still struggling downtown a giant boost."
""With the opening of the new Rothko Pavilion, the Portland Art Museum takes a huge step forward," John Weber wrote in his Nov. 20 story The Rothko Pavilion opens! The new addition brings the museum's two principal structures - Pietro Belluschi's iconic 1932 modernist museum building and the 1924 Masonic Temple now known as PAM's Mark Building-into a vastly improved, largely satisfying architectural relationship."
Portland completed a decade-long project with the November grand opening of the Mark Rothko Pavilion, a $116 million project that connected the museum's two main buildings and refurbished older spaces. The pavilion links Pietro Belluschi's 1932 modernist building and the 1924 Masonic Temple, now PAM's Mark Building, creating a more cohesive campus. The reconceived campus reinvigorated the museum and provided a major boost to Portland's struggling downtown. The project involved a long architectural process led by Portland's Hennebery Eddy Architects in collaboration with Chicago's Vinci Hamp Architects. Meanwhile, federal actions in 2025 severely reduced support for libraries, public broadcasting, the NEA, and the NEH.
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