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Lack of Artistic Vision
We’re plannning a trip to Biloxi, Mississippi sometime in 2007.
The wife and I are both looking forward to seeing the new Frank Gehry complex for the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum which should open by then.
We shall travel all the way to Biloxi. Because it’s Gehry.
I think the trustees of the Corcoran Gallery have blown it for the museum by refusing to follow David C. Levy’s vision. The Gehry revovation would have put the Corcoran on the map. The trustees should have just gotten out of Levy’s way.
The Corcoran needed it. The institution is still shrouded in relative obscurity, and many of the people outside of Washington who have heard of it usually still only remember the Mapplethorpe fiasco in 1989.
The city needed it. Most of DC’s architecture is derivative. We have bastardized replicas of the Parthenon, the Pantheon, and the Mausoleum of Halikarnossos. We have an Egyptian obelisk and a Florentine dome. The ultimate irony is that the most obvious American architectural form of the 20th-century, the skyskraper, is conspicuously absent from skyline of our nation’s capital.
I’m just hoping someone comes through with the $100 million it will take to save the project.
Architects May Come and Architects May Go
Erin and I took a driving tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright homes in Oak Park while we were at my folks’ place for Christmas. The photos are here.
