Last Thursday I was glad to see the Wall Street Journal's Eric Gibson call out (without naming him) the NY Times' Ken Johnson for his perplexing, dyspeptic review last month of the Metropolitan Museum's rip-roaring roundup of The American West in Bronze (to Apr. 13). Johnson dismissed that show as "troubling, because it underplays a real-world history of appalling violence and … [Read more...] about “The American West in Bronze”: Action-Packed Casts at Metropolitan Museum (with video)
Archives for February 2014
Curator Barry Bergdoll Explains MoMA’s “Frank Lloyd Wright and the City” (with video)
My brief WNYC comments and related CultureGrrl post on the Museum of Modern Art's just opened exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs.Dispersal (to June 1), didn't adequately explain what this show is about. Who better to do that job than the show's co-organizer, Barry Bergdoll, MoMA's acting chief curator for architecture and design? He nominally left his … [Read more...] about Curator Barry Bergdoll Explains MoMA’s “Frank Lloyd Wright and the City” (with video)
Hear Me Now: My WNYC Comments on MoMA’s Frank Lloyd Wright Show
Below is the audio for my New York Public Radio (WNYC) commentary (click the arrow) on the Museum of Modern Art's just opened Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs.Dispersal (to June 1). It's the first exhibition drawn from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, which MoMA jointly acquired with Columbia University's Avery Architectural and Fine Arts … [Read more...] about Hear Me Now: My WNYC Comments on MoMA’s Frank Lloyd Wright Show