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\nGrope<\/EM>, I’d like to point to
\nchallenge to Tom Wolfe<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, yesterday in Slate. Will Wolfe take it? I hope
\nso. <\/P>
\n
\nmarble Gallery of Modern Art (aka the Huntington Hartford museum) —
\npretty much unnoticed. (Even trusty Arts Journal didn’t to link to it.) <\/P>
\n
\npass it on Manhattan’s Columbus Circle. It seems so awkward, massive yet fragile
\nand standing on puny legs, I always think it’s about to topple over and that maybe it
\nshould.<\/P>
\n
\non Stone’s defection from the International Style. Besides, who can resist Wolfe in one of his
\nkiller harangues? You won’t find a swifter summary judgment about the orthodoxies of
\nModernism and a whole lot of other “isms.”<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"