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Christopher Williams,Model: 1964 Renault Dauphine-Four, R-1095
(Nr. 9), 2000, black-and-white photograph, 25 3/8 x 29 3/8".
victory over the sun and the black quadralateral
return the Elgin marbles
muschamp chronicles, parts 1,2,3 (11/02/00)
"The subject of the 4,466-word article was straightforward enough--the winner of a competition to build the newspaper's new Times Square headquarters--but you needed a graduate degree in Times protocol to keep track of all the roles Muschamp played in writing it. First there was Muschamp the critic, reviewing the design proposed by the winning architect, Renzo Piano. Then there was Muschamp the Times employee, who wasn't in a position to judge his bosses' decision too severely. There was also Muschamp the Times representative, who had to be gracious to the three losing finalists who had gone to the considerable trouble of entering the contest in the first place. Muschamp juggled the apparently conflicting rhetorical requirements imposed by these roles--the need for tough-mindedness and the need to brown-nose and be generous seemed particularly at odds--by praising Piano strongly but praising one set of finalists (Frank O. Gehry and David Childs) even more strongly, then attacking another finalist (Cesar Pelli) harshly. Muschamp thereby sacrificed a modicum of graciousness to gain the aura of independence."