Word: shuttlecock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vacationed in the French Alps with his family in 1973. Suffering from a sprained ankle, he discovered a new game called "Pong" in the hotel bar, and was mesmerized by it. "Who or what controlled my opponent's movements? What were the rules governing the flight of that square shuttlecock?" The reader can really feel how important finding a niche was to him through the simple yet emotional description of this discovery...
...which the Guggenheim recently bought. But a great deal of late-American Modernism is just arbitrarily big. It's as though the larger spaces of Gehry's design caused the art to inflate by suction. Still, some very big pieces work very well here, notably Claes Oldenburg's soft shuttlecock drooping from a balcony of the atrium, and the curving steel sheets of Serra's 104-ft.-long Snake. It would be a tremendous pity if Bilbao ended up with a great building stuffed with heavy-metal, late-imperial American cultural landfill. What broad public is really interested in such...