05 March 2015

tell me how you really feel...

jerry saltz did NOT care for the bjork show at MoMA and seems to be kind of mad in general:
That sadness has mushroomed into dejection of late. Since 2004, when it reopened in its bland new Taniguchi building, many art-world conversations about New York museums circle back to and then plunge into people's pain, anger, sadness, and frustration about the Museum of Modern Art. On the one hand, the museum has the greatest collection of modern art on Earth. It always will. Yet not only is most of this collection permanently held captive in storage, what little of it is on view is seen in perhaps the most unpleasant viewing conditions in any major museum in the world — in far too few galleries that are far too small and poorly designed. Then there's the museum's twisted bid to transform itself into something like a multiplex mall, specializing in whiz-bang pop-cultural events. Now comes a Diller Scofidio + Renfro expansion plan meant to fix the problems it created in 2004, which looks much more likely to exacerbate them. (via)

1 comment:

bun-bun said...

I went to the Bjork show last night. It is bad. Do not waste your time. I said "Madame Tussaud's with Bjork on your iPod" and apparently I'm not the only one.

 
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