Take my money and disappear!
John Updike (thanks to Kottke.org for the tip — head over there and check it out, it’s worth it) went over to the new MoMA and liked it.
I went over to The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large and liked the same quote Jason K did:
My guide, William J. Maloney, the genial project director, quoted the architect as saying to the museum trustees something like this: “Raise a lot of money for me, I’ll give you good architecture. Raise even more money, I’ll make the architecture disappear.”
Damn, isn’t that exactly how good art and design is? (OK, some good art and design.) You give ‘em money and they give you something you don’t even notice is there, it’s so good.
T K Vogel | 9:18 am |
