{"id":25963,"date":"2017-06-12T08:32:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T12:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=25963"},"modified":"2021-06-01T14:15:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:15:39","slug":"a-better-idea-for-the-guggenheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2017\/06\/a-better-idea-for-the-guggenheim.html","title":{"rendered":"A Better Idea for the Guggenheim"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s fantasies for his design of the Guggenheim Museum was to color it pink. You can see how that might have looked in a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art: Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive<\/a>. If you can’t get to MoMA, you can see what it might also have looked like colored cherokee red or orange — which Wright also had in mind — by clicking Michael Kimmelman’s takeout<\/a> about the show and Wright’s flights of fancy. Or you can have a look here:
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\nEither of those colors would have been an improvement on the final decision to make the museum white. But Richard Hamilton had a better idea:<\/p>\n

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum<\/p><\/div>\n

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Guggenheim photomontage by Richard Hamilton [1967]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s fantasies for his design of the Guggenheim Museum was to color it pink. You can see how that might have looked in a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art: Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive. If you can’t get to MoMA, you can see what it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-main","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/POPARCHITEKUR-365.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-6KL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25963"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46618,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25963\/revisions\/46618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}