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Friday, November 19, 2004
The Modern
Re-opens on Saturday. I'm not sure I'll be there on Saturday itself ... that is, I can't imagine that people won't be camped out the day before in order to get in the door on opening day, so I'm guessing I can probably wait a couple of days. The pre-game reviews so far: the NYTimes has been publishing something like 3 glowing articles a day about it—they just are drooling. And there's a terrific piece by John Updike in this week's New Yorker, which lovingly describes every inch of the not-quite-finished MoMA (in Updike's brilliant purple prose, of course...scr*w you Updike! It's an architecture review -- you don't need to bring your A-game to everything. Write something bad for once -- now that would be something...). And the few pictures I've seen so far of the (empty, unfinished) galleries, are sort of spectacular. So by all accounts we're in for a treat...