The latest artist to be given Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim to play with is the Frenchman Daniel Buren. His installation is a spectacular folly, a lumberingly chilly and theatrical construction, mirrored floor to ceiling. At 81 feet, it is a corner of what, if it were a cube, would be large enough to enclose the rotunda. Imagine a glass office tower slammed through the front of the building. You enter backstage, as it were, in shadow, under a high tarpaulin, the sight being only of scaffolding and plywood, which supports the dozens of large mirrored panels on the other side.
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- bill 3-25-2005 3:32 pm