Throughout the last couple of weeks, I have spent my time sifting through and organizing the Pulitzer press archives.  This pleasant task accounts for the buildings construction and exhibition history as well as a plethora of still-healing and fresh paper cuts.  Despite the effects that archiving has borne on me physically, mentally I have never been more aware.  I have read almost every publication within the last eight years that mentions the Foundation, while cultivating my cultural awareness along the way.  Sometime between a few St. Louis Alive magazines, vast amounts of Post Dispatch articles, a bunch of ArtForums, one German Vogue, and countless other local, national and international articles, I managed to determine all the places I want to some day shop, eat, and stay around the world.  When not idling my time away on thoughts of exotic travels and cuisine, I realized that I was as content sitting in the library at the Pulitzer as I would be traveling halfway around the world.  The Foundation has been met with as much, if not more acclaim internationally than locally, and has been featured in Japanese, German, French, Spanish and many more international periodicals.  Heralded by the New Yorker at the museums opening in 2001 as one of the “finest small museums of our time,” the Pulitzer has continued to reinvent itself without straying from its strong “Ando concrete” foundation. 

Here are my top 10 favorite press mentions of the Pulitzer:

1. GQ’s “25 Buildings Every Man Should Know:  GQ’s Guide to the Most Important and Beautiful Structures in America.”  March 2005

2. The Washington Post  “A Blissful Marriage of Art and Architecture” October 20, 2001

3. Riverfront Times “Emmy Award:  Emily Pulitzer’s gift to St. Louis has arrived in a concrete box.  Hidden inside: the portrait of a woman who changed the city.” December 5-11, 2001

4. The New York Times: “A Prize-Winning Japanese Architect Casts a St. Louis Museum in Concrete” October 18, 2001

5. W Magazine:  “Pulitzer’s Prize” November 2001

6. ARTnews: “The New Wave of Art Museums” March 2005

7. German Vogue: “Elite Temple” January 2002

8. Architectural Record: “Ando’s work teaches us not to judge a package by its wrapping.” January 2001

9. The New Yorker: “Art Houses” November 5, 2001

10. St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Three top artists talk about their rare collaboration: The trio involved in the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts building also discuss art’s role in troubled times”  October 14, 2001