Sunday, October 18, 2009
The dramatic and oft-criticized Guggenheim Museum is fifty years old this week. Oh how the artistes excoriated Frank Lloyd Wright's design and how the pundits and doomsayers predicted it would have no audience and never last. Ha to them and happy birthday, SRG!!!!
In commemoration of the notable anniversary, the NYT Sunday puzzle had the museum as its theme and Modern Art Notes interviewed the puzzle's creator (here).
One of the joys of growing up in Manhattan, is getting to see first-hand so much time-honored, respected art and I remember vividly racing around and around the circles and circles and circles of the Guggenheim, seeing impressionists and expressionists - Kandinsky and Mondrian, in particular - and being amazed at the architecture.
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The dramatic and oft-criticized Guggenheim Museum is fifty years old this week. Oh how the artistes excoriated Frank Lloyd Wright's design and how the pundits and doomsayers predicted it would have no audience and never last. Ha to them and happy birthday, SRG!!!!In commemoration of the notable anniversary, the NYT Sunday puzzle had the museum as its theme and Modern Art Notes interviewed the puzzle's creator (here).
One of the joys of growing up in Manhattan, is getting to see first-hand so much time-honored, respected art and I remember vividly racing around and around the circles and circles and circles of the Guggenheim, seeing impressionists and expressionists - Kandinsky and Mondrian, in particular - and being amazed at the architecture.
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