The Brooklyn Rail
As a former New Yorker, still in love with its unique density of competing forms, mainly banal but spectacular in aggregate, when I heard MoMA was rudely knocking down the one-of-a-kind Folk Museum - for no good reason! - I was pissed. This debacle is still playing out. Now the new addition has opened, it's obvious those of us who protested were right to do so. Much was lost, very little gained. But it is not fashionable to criticize the fashionable.
As a former New Yorker, still in love with its unique density of competing forms, mainly banal but spectacular in aggregate, when I heard MoMA was rudely knocking down the one-of-a-kind Folk Museum - for no good reason! - I was pissed. This debacle is still playing out. Now the new addition has opened, it's obvious those of us who protested were right to do so. Much was lost, very little gained. But it is not fashionable to criticize the fashionable.
Read my Brooklyn Rail critique, here > https://brooklynrail.org/2014/03/criticspage/distant-musings-on-momas-folk-art-dilemma-what-who-how-it-represents
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