Volume 39, Number 13 · July 16, 1992
Go Go Guggenheim
By John Richardson
Now that it has been scrupulously and sensitively restored by the architectural firm of Gwathmey Siegel and Associates, Frank Lloyd Wright's controversial swansong, the Guggenheim Museum, lives up to its reputation as perhaps the greatest building by perhaps the greatest modern architect in America. Which is not to say that it will live down its reputation as a monument to his megalomania. Wright's disregard for an art museum's requirements is more than ever evident.
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