Media on Media
Gehry's LA Symphony HallFor baroque exuberance verging into meaninglessness, the prize went, as always, to Herbert Muschamp of The New York Times:
Imagine a moon apple: a hollow sphere of lunar light. Somebody hands you a knife and says, 'Cut!' How many shapes can you make? Peel a ribbon. Carve out squares of curving surfaces, concave and convex. Change the dimensions. Turn some slices inside out. Tweak. Stretch. When you're done, compose the pieces into a flowering cabbage. Then into a cabbage rose. Rearrange. Magnify. Reproduce the contours with large panels of stainless steel etched to a soft matte finish. Jump in and soar.
An absurd passage, perhaps. But good moods are always a little absurd. In a world as deadly serious as this, do we have a right to feel this way? Nah. But let's do.
* Ray, 11/12/2003 09:56:59 AM
