"Phantom Tattoo" by Washington Color School artist Gene Davis suspends from a wall that tilts away from the painting's top edge.

"Quantum Cloud XXXIII" by Antony Gormley, part of the museum's permanent collection, stands in a room that ends in a narrow wedge of claustrophobic space.

Some of the features of the Hamilton Building are reminiscent of a ship's prow rising dramatically toward the Denver sky. How the Denver Art Museum will sort out is extreme makeover wil be fascinating to watch.

A long, narrow wedge of the Hamilton Building thrusts up and across 13th Avenue to point toward the original Denver Art Museum.

The inspiration of the Rocky Mountains and geometric rock crystals found in nearby foothills is clear in this wide view of the building, which is named for the museum's longtime board chairman, Frederic C. Hamilton.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY: Anne Cusack, Los Angeles Times