Subtly Impressive, And Ready For The Public

“Not much has gone wrong at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Japanese architect Tadao Ando’s $65 million addition to the city’s Cultural District that opens Saturday. For a major work by an international superstar, it is a surprisingly discreet building. No swirling titanium walls like the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, no fluttering butterfly sunscreens as in the Milwaukee Art Museum. It sits politely, almost corporately on its site, five gleaming rectangles of aluminum and glass enclosing the second-largest postwar art museum in the United States.”