Word: hirshhorn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mellon-finds in great art what eluded Alexander of Macedon-a last world to conquer. It is a lust to which overachievers have been notoriously susceptible, from Catherine the Great, who built Leningrad's incomparable Hermitage ("I am not a nibbler but a glutton") to U.S. Industrialist Joseph Hirshhorn, the great benefactor of the Smithsonian ("I have a madman's rage for art"). To be sure, such stupendous collectors and donors still make record purchases. But it is not the proud possessors who crowd the salesrooms and find bonanzas in baubles...
...needed to set in view the osmotic Nicholson exchange between the worlds of natural and abstract form. Now, for the first time, one has been mounted. Organized last fall by Chief Curator Steven Nash at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, it will be at Washington's Hirshhorn Museum until...
...they convey meaning in highly complicated ways, but they can also be very blunt, and unconsciously so. The silliness of many of the biggest recent official architectural projects in America flows from this. No doubt when Gordon Bunshaft and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the vast concrete drum of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington they had in mind the "ideal," unbuilt funerary monuments to heroes dreamed up by the French Revolutionary Architect Etienne-Louis Boullée. That does not stop the thing looking like a set for The Guns of Navarone, minus the guns: an unwitting parody of museum security...
...even thinking in terms of transferring right now. That type of attitude is only going to make it worse," Lisa Hirshhorn '81 said yesterday...
...Columnist Russell Baker, the best satirist in the American press. The Post's daily Style section takes itself less seriously than does the Times in its cultural coverage; but then in Washington there is less to take seriously, even if you add in the Kennedy Center and the Hirshhorn Museum. The Style section's reportorial star is Sally Quinn, who with sharp eyes and a mischievous ear is expert at waylaying visiting notables. (The Times had in Charlotte Curtis a reporter with a wicked gift for deadpan reporting of society's banalities, but instead...