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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- tom moody 10-04-2004 7:26 pm