Word: wright
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Master Concept. In enclosing space, Becket shows little of the imagination or pioneering spirit of a Wright or Saarinen. Becket makes no apology, feels that his sort of made-to-order architecture is ideally suited to the varying needs of business. "The one who takes the position that he is primarily a creator and that his services must be sought," he says, "is headed for failure...
...spite of the crowds that wait to get in. Director James Johnson Sweeney of Manhattan's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has never gotten along with his spiraling new building on upper Fifth Avenue. He took a dislike to the place the moment he first saw Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's plans, and though he seemed for a while to have made a kind of peace with it, he was never really satisfied. Last week the museum announced that Sweeney had quit...
...Guggenheim, which had been called the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, and which had a reputation for being not only too narrow but often second-rate. Sweeney seemed in his element in trying to build up the collection-until he collided with the towering figure of Frank Lloyd Wright...
...When Wright's building opened, some critics-and a good many artists-moaned that art had been sacrificed to architecture (TIME. Nov. 2). Sweeney made no secret of the fact that he agreed...
...Wright had hoped that the main light in the huge round gallery would come from the glass dome roof. Sweeney installed bright fluorescent lighting. He painted the walls a dazzling white ("Sweeney white-the color of death!" protested Wright), and to overcome the artists' lament that their paintings would look askew because of Wright's sloping "continuous floor." Sweeney devised an ingenious way of displaying his unframed canvases on rods projected from the walls. But for all his innovations, he could never get over the feeling that he was running not a museum but a monument to Wright...