The Museum of Modern Art in New York is planning to expand once again, and as with most such efforts is courting controversy for a variety of reasons. One is the demolishing of the Folk Art Museum next door, another is the fact that the giant glass-walled architectural plan might not actually be addressing the primary reason for the expansion: spaces to install more of its amazing pre-WWII art collection. The firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro has been working on drawing up the project, and they are no strangers to museum culture having been themselves the subject of a major exhibition and the architects of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. You can read more about the project from the museum's perspective here, a scathing letter to MoMA from one of the US's most important art critics Jerry Saltz, an article from the New York Times, as well as an interview with architect Elizabeth Diller in which she responds to the criticism.
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