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...Ernst spends his days tending to patients whose state of health runs the gamut from vegetative to permanently comatose-a foreshadowing of the film's extremely limited scope. His one patient who is actually conscious is a terminally ill dialysis case (played with stunning grace by Jeffery Wright) praying for death...
...there was another structure Gehry wanted to refer to--the mother ship, as it were: Frank Lloyd Wright's original Guggenheim on Fifth Avenue, with its great empty center wound about by the spiral of exhibition ramp. Obviously that couldn't be repeated (it is, in any case, a curator's nightmare), but like the Bilbaino industrial metaphor, it could be evoked...
Warts and all, Gehry's Bilbao is the most exciting public building put up in a long time, and, unlike Wright's canonical spiral in New York, it shows every sign of working well as a place in which to show works of art. There are, of course, difficulties here, because the size of some of Gehry's galleries and their eccentricity of shape is bound to tell against the smaller paintings. Moreover, as a work of art in its own right, the museum is far more interesting than many of its contents--the dull, inflated conceptual art and late...
...America," retorted Critic Emily Genauer in the New York Herald Tribune. "A building that should be put in a museum to show how mad the 20th Century is," editorialized the New York Daily Mirror... Thus in a babel of discord, and six months after his death, Frank Lloyd Wright's last major work, the $3,000,000 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum...opened to the public last week... What first visitors saw, as they walked through the newly opened doors, was a huge, sudden space that swirled breathtakingly to the high dome. This, they recognized, was a building whose closed outer...
...substance-abuse groups we have heard for years about the other "disease" of the alcoholic, the co-dependent spouse. I always found co-dependency a squishy, deprecating term that most spouses of recovering alcoholics never really understood. Thanks to Wright for deftly making clear the term differentiation of self, which embraces a wonderfully positive, teachable concept of what it means not to be co-dependent. JOHN TARTARO Plano, Texas...