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Article: The Question of Wright; The Smithsonian's Ambivalent Look at the Legendary Architect
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- The Washington Post
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- July 2, 1988
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Scarcely a month goes by anymore that a new auction record is
not set for some artifact or other from Frank Lloyd Wright's hand,
his studio or his closet, and there's been a proliferation of Wright
restorations, Wright museums, essays and books. But Wright is still
the most troubling of our artistic geniuses. The man and his work
retain a fierce singularity. It's not easy to see how his vision
fits into our workaday world, nor how his proud, multifaceted
creations any longer answer pressing needs.
So, in the midst of all the celebration, mindless and otherwise,
it is a novelty to come upon an exhibition devoted to the worthy if
arguable notion that it's not the architecture that counts ...