This fall, the French cultural season opened with the private Vuitton Foundation museum in Paris, a rarefied environment for a select collection of contemporary art, by Frank Gehry. At the other end of the cultural spectrum, France’s second largest metropolitan area, Lyon — arguably Paris’s historic rival, the Chicago to New York — just inaugurated the equally large and prepossessing Confluence Museum (the Musée des Confluences). — nytimes.com
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Its so strange how these NYTimes pieces that feature a specific architect are almost never written by Michael Kimmelman, the NY Times Architecture critic.
Because he's probably thinking "What the f*ck is this shit Im looking at" - most apparent in the current subject of review
Not qualified. Well born gifted musician.
Michael Kimmelman and many of his peers in media have an extreme left position of seeing architecture as always political and not as the thing in itself--and its specific effects. This is not an uncommon view today. The editor in chief of AR only makes an appearance when there is a Denise Scott Brown headline. If they were those more versed in both architecture and politics you might see a better synthesis of the two but I presume it has more to do with ignorance about architecture. Most of these NY media types emerge out of media cronyism than genuine knowledge.
These people are "architecture critics" in name only.
Also hints at his predecessor who had an extremely craft oriented outlook and was vilified for being apolitical. Something to be said for balance.
But there's always Kimmelman to write about the "architecture of McDonald's" (real article) as if the world needs more of that.
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