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The Renwick Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution’s decorative arts and crafts museum in Washington, DC, is due to reopen to the public on November 13 after a two-year, $30m renovation. Built in 1859 across from the White House, the Renwick is the first American building designed specifically to showcase art.

The inaugural exhibition, “Wonder”, will take over the entire museum. The Renwick commissioned nine contemporary artists, including Chakaia Booker, Tara Donovan, Maya Lin and Leo Villareal, to create site-specific, room-size installations out of unorthodox materials such as insects, tires and glass marbles.

enver's new The Art hotel on Tuesday proved it will live up to its name, unveiling a list of art-world stars — living, dead, local and international — whose work will decorate its public spaces.

Names include legends, such as the late, 20th-century icon Sol LeWitt, whose brilliant red, yellow and blue "Wall Drawing #397," from 1983, will fill a wall that greets visitors entering from the street.

There are also upcoming notables, including Leo Villareal, best known for a piece called "The Bay Lights," which illuminated the San Francisco Bay Bridge for two years ending in March. For the ceiling of the outdoor portico, Villareal will create a piece made of thousands of lights programmed to flash in patterns.