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...American museums had to subsist on Government money like the Louvre or the National Gallery in London, all would shrink, and many of the best would never have got started. Names like Whitney, Guggenheim, Phillips, Freer and Frick attest to the role played by the private collector in creating the public institution. Today more than ever the one-person museum, named for the man or woman who assembled it and put it in its own building, is a ruling fantasy of the ambitious collector. Why settle for your name on a plaque in the Met when for a few extra...
...peak experiences. Piano's design eschews the high-tech theatrics that made such a mess of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which he co- designed a decade ago. If ever one building in an architect's career made amends for another, it is this. Imagine something akin to the Frick Museum, but with fewer masterpieces and devoted to the juncture between modernism and the archaic, a place where disinterested aesthetic experience can be enjoyed without coercion or surfeit. One would then have the Menil...
...inevitable if regrettable part of a high-stakes business. As Mayor Hudnut noted in response to Baltimore's complaints. "Where did the Orioles come from," Texas. Where did the Orioles come from? St. Louis, Franchises move around. It's just as natural now as it was then." David Frick, treasurer of Indianapolis' capital improvement Board, which is putting up most of the Colts' money, added. "To the city of Baltimore, I say, 'I'm sorry." But we're going to love your Colts more than you loved them...
...Frick's comment is yet another reminder that in a capitalist society, even love has price. One night caution the citizens of Indianapolis nor to grow too attached to their Colts, as the Irsays of the world are a fickle breed, and a booming city like Phoenix or San Jose will always be beckoning with an eager checkbook. Of course, Indianapolisites will learn soon enough what price love demands: the average tab for a day at the Hoosier Dome this fall will be about $25. It the newest Colts lovers don't have that kind of money, they can always...
...they named Ford Frick...