Archive for June, 2009



Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim turns fifty

The Frank Lloyd Wright show celebrating the Guggenheim’s 50th anniversary is more hagiography than critical evaluation, but it does offer a strong sense of the best and worst of his architecture, from the space-age hilltop homes and awesome corkscrew museum itself, to his sprawling and weirdly laid out suburban landscapes. To be fair, they’d be far easier to traverse in . . .

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Robinson on Poe

“Poe at his best is not imaginable without the excesses for which he must be forgiven.” — Marilynne Robinson, on reading Poe as a girl (Via.)

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