The Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, opens on 6 August

Apollo, August, 2005

The Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, opens on 6 August. It is the new incarnation of the Davenport Museum of Art, which changed its status from a public to a private institution in 2003, relocated to its current site overlooking the Mississippi, and re-named itself in honour of a $13 million bequest from the Figge Foundation, which contibuted to the $47m redevelopment. The new building, by British architect David Chipperfield, has a hard-edged silhouette and is clad in multiple layers of glass with different degrees of opacity (which makes it glow at night, left). The museum's first exhibition, 'Modern art and national identity 1915-35' opens on 17 September. www.figgeartmuseum.org

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