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Barr's MOMA was brilliant and fun. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Now, the rehung Modernist collection will start with a Signac rather than the Cezanne bather because it's a gift of David Rockefeller. The reporter does a good job of drawing out the curators' pitiful rationales. A better example of how bad the "Modern Starts" rehanging was a few years ago was the Gerrit Rietveld chair next to the Duchamp stool/bicycle wheel.
"If it ain't broke, break it" was something my mentor used to like to say.
They've already done that at MOMA: "Modern Starts." I agree with Frank Stella, it was awful.
"It is finished."
It is too bad Kirk Varnedoe didn't live to install the collection. It seemed to be his to do.
I would make it a permanent shrine to Barr's vision, and leave the po-mo theory to contemporary spaces. "Kirk (and Elderfield), you're no Alfred Barr."
"Riley argues that Taniguchi's architecture in fact looks radical these days: "It's all straight lines!" Whether radical or retro, what this master of minimalist beauty has created through his gifts and his tenacity is a design lesson in itself. But the ultimate judgment will have to wait: Taniguchi himself told a MoMA curator who'd complimented him that considering the building without the art in it is like admiring the tea cup without the green tea. Next month the museum will have art on the walls and crowds in the galleries—and then the tea ceremony will begin. "
Barr was a hero, no doubt.
Ya, it is hard not to speculate. But I am trying to hold opinion until we actually see. My finger's are crossed for them.
ive always liked the sculpture garden. the marble walks, ivy, the chairs and two top tables, oldenbergs mickey etc. i hope all that fares well. i think it was PJ or a PJ collaboration originally. Tom your possition supports the claim that "museums are where you put the dead art." ...or something to that effect.
Or dead collectors...
Similar to the idea of the Barnes in PA.
The original hanging always preserved the excitement of Barr's collecting trips to Europe and the excitement of early Modernism. It wasn't dead at all. What kills it is when grocery clerks (to quote Marlon Brando) start playing mix and match with the art objects, or when the need of the Museum to placate vain donors tramps all over intellectual history. That's my gripe in a nutshell.
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- bill 10-03-2004 6:19 pm
Barr's MOMA was brilliant and fun. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Now, the rehung Modernist collection will start with a Signac rather than the Cezanne bather because it's a gift of David Rockefeller. The reporter does a good job of drawing out the curators' pitiful rationales. A better example of how bad the "Modern Starts" rehanging was a few years ago was the Gerrit Rietveld chair next to the Duchamp stool/bicycle wheel.
- tom moody 10-03-2004 6:48 pm [add a comment]
"If it ain't broke, break it" was something my mentor used to like to say.
- selma 10-04-2004 1:07 am [add a comment]
They've already done that at MOMA: "Modern Starts." I agree with Frank Stella, it was awful.
- tom moody 10-04-2004 1:21 am [add a comment]
- bill 10-04-2004 1:28 am [add a comment]
"It is finished."
- tom moody 10-04-2004 1:52 am [add a comment]
It is too bad Kirk Varnedoe didn't live to install the collection. It seemed to be his to do.
- selma 10-04-2004 6:30 pm [add a comment]
I would make it a permanent shrine to Barr's vision, and leave the po-mo theory to contemporary spaces. "Kirk (and Elderfield), you're no Alfred Barr."
- tom moody 10-04-2004 6:56 pm [add a comment]
"Riley argues that Taniguchi's architecture in fact looks radical these days: "It's all straight lines!" Whether radical or retro, what this master of minimalist beauty has created through his gifts and his tenacity is a design lesson in itself. But the ultimate judgment will have to wait: Taniguchi himself told a MoMA curator who'd complimented him that considering the building without the art in it is like admiring the tea cup without the green tea. Next month the museum will have art on the walls and crowds in the galleries—and then the tea ceremony will begin. "
- bill 10-04-2004 6:57 pm [add a comment]
Barr was a hero, no doubt.
Ya, it is hard not to speculate. But I am trying to hold opinion until we actually see. My finger's are crossed for them.
- selma 10-04-2004 7:09 pm [add a comment]
ive always liked the sculpture garden. the marble walks, ivy, the chairs and two top tables, oldenbergs mickey etc. i hope all that fares well. i think it was PJ or a PJ collaboration originally. Tom your possition supports the claim that "museums are where you put the dead art." ...or something to that effect.
- bill 10-04-2004 7:10 pm [add a comment]
Or dead collectors...
Similar to the idea of the Barnes in PA.
- selma 10-04-2004 7:20 pm [add a comment]
The original hanging always preserved the excitement of Barr's collecting trips to Europe and the excitement of early Modernism. It wasn't dead at all. What kills it is when grocery clerks (to quote Marlon Brando) start playing mix and match with the art objects, or when the need of the Museum to placate vain donors tramps all over intellectual history. That's my gripe in a nutshell.
- tom moody 10-04-2004 7:26 pm [add a comment]