The long-running battle between the Nasher Sculpture Center and nearby Museum Tower over the building’s reflective glare’s effect on the museum, its gardens and the surrounding neighborhood took an awkward turn recently as surrounding museums and the broader Dallas Arts District join in the fight:
According to the Morning News, the consultant behind the fake accounts, former television news anchor Mike Snyder, used the personas to post comments that sided with the Museum Tower’s owners, the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, on news stories about the controversy.
The Dallas Morning News has reported that a consultant working for the owners of the Museum Tower, a 42-story residential building designed by Johnson Fain on the edge of the city’s Arts District, has used fake social media accounts to try to sway public opinion about the project. Since its completion last year, the tower’s reflective glass facade has bounced sunlight into the skylit galleries of the Nasher Sculpture Center, a 2003 museum and sculpture garden designed by Renzo Piano, and led to the closing of its James Turrell “skyspace.”
Fake Social Media Accounts Deployed in Fight Over Dallas Building Blinding Piano’s Nasher (ArchDaily)
