Clone,
Sweet Clone
No. 3 of 12
by Carl Yadkin, Architecture Editor
OK, we're into really touchy territory here. There's Tara (with Scarlett and her peacocks
and persons-in-waiting). And there's Scarlett's porch (which people in the Deep South
persist in calling a "gallery"). And of course that vision of Tara-ness comes to
us via Hollywood and the 20th-Century-Fox backlot. Flash forward to the 1980s. The de
Menil family (art benefactors roughly on the scale of the Medici's) needed a building to
hold their immense collection. They hired hot Italian architect Renzo Piano (he did the
Pompidou), who came and looked around Houston, and next thing you know, we have the
world's longest porch, er, gallery.
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