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Word: omnivorium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years its stolidly trendy Swedish director, Karl Pontus Hulten, has emitted much politic cant about how Le Pompidoglio would not be a museum in the traditional (read "elitist") sense, but rather a kind of cross between a people's palace and a pinball machine-a transcultural, interdisciplinary omnivorium. The real question was how the place might work as a museum. On seeing "Paris-New York," one wishes the question had not been asked. The show is a curatorial botch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Botch of an Epic Theme | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

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