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Article: Star wars at the MOMA. (Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York) (column)
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- Interior Design
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- August 1, 1988
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Star Wars at the MOMA
New York's Museum of Modern Art has had trouble with architecture as long as I can remember, and the reason is really quite obvious: because MOMA is a Museum of Art, everything annointed by it must, primarily if not exclusively, meet aesthetic criteria. That intelligent man Arthur Drexler, who headed MOMA's Departure of Architecture until his untimely death a couple of years ago, used to state regularly that he (and MOMA) considered Architecture (capital A) to be Art--at which point Arthur would roll his eyes heavenward, in the general direction of the sainted Alfred Barr, for emphasis.
Now, the trouble--as Arthur knew, as Alfred ...
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