[Leica] Museums

[lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

Robert writes:
"So you're saying that none of the dozens of new museums around the

world count as museums because they are also architectural show pieces?"


Why are you trying to be difficult? You know I never wrote that. Many of the
new museums are architectural masterpieces but they are not the best places
to show paintings and photographs. Take the Guggenheim museum in New York
for example. Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral ramp provides an unbroken wall to
show images but the very shape of the museum prevents stepping back to view
the paintings else you would fall into the atrium. The museum itself could
hold three times as many paintings if it was of conventional design. Still
it is an architectural show place. But not a good museum.


Larry Z