Roger Kimball

Museum without a soul

Roger Kimball on how Yoshio Taniguchi has transformed New York’s Museum of Modern Art

issue 20 November 2004

Roger Kimball on how Yoshio Taniguchi has transformed New York’s Museum of Modern Art

We are told that our individualist art has touched its limit, and its expression can go no further. That’s often been said; but if it cannot go further, it may still go elsewhere.
André Malraux, The Voices of Silence

‘An institution,’ said Emerson, ‘is the lengthened shadow of one man.’

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