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Article: Bay area modern.(new Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- May 1, 1995
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Conventional museum wisdom in the 1980s maintained that bigger is always better, that art institutions atrophy without constant expansion, and that museums should look to corporations rather than libraries or universities for their organizational principles. In the first half of the '90s, though, signs of a new austerity have surfaced everywhere in the museum world. The Whitney has scaled back, closing its downtown and Equitable Building branches, and its board may be blessing the fates that controversy over the proposed renovation design by Michael Graves prevented a major expansion effort just as the national economy was shutting down. (A much more modest renovation and ...