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Everybody Has Always Hated MoMA
United Kingdom Architecture News - Dec 04, 2014 - 19:02 2286 views
Firemen combat a fire on the exterior facade of the Museum of Modern Art in 1958. The fire was started by welders during a renovation process.
Every week, we’ll take you back into New York Magazine’s archives to showcase our extensive arts coverage. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of MoMA’s Yoshio Taniguchi Building, we unearthed Thomas B. Hess’s “MoMA and the Towering Limbo,” from March 15, 1976, which skewers MoMA’s plan at the time to build luxury apartments in order to stop dipping into its then-dwindling endowment.
Shoals of little shark’s grins was the initial observation on my scientific — i.e., totally random — poll of the Greater New York art community’s reaction to the Museum of Modern Art’s latest expansion program....Continue Reading
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