Art Center Divided over Planned Gehry Building, Educational Priorities

Although newly flush with Avery Dennison labels and grant money, all is not well at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. A piece in today’s Los Angeles Times sums up the tensions, which start with widespread grumblings about the private college’s planned $50 million design research center, designed by Frank Gehry, and extend to criticisms of changes wrought by current president Richard Koshalek. While administrators point out that the new building would address the school’s problem of workspace overcrowding, an online