For the general public, the Kimbell Art Museum’s exalted reputation rests on the extraordinarily high quality of its small collection, with hundreds of firstrate pieces by Western painters and sculptors, and a growing cache of Asian and pre-Columbian work. For architects, the building housing that collection is its crown jewel: Louis Kahn’s cycloid-vaulted concrete and travertine oasis in silver and creamy white ranks as one of modern architecture’s greatest monuments, perhaps his most sublime building, the one he called his favorite child.
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