“The Guggenheim has embarked on $27 million worth of complex work in the hope that it will emerge refreshed in 2007, just two years before it turns 50. All the work is to be done without closing down the museum. ‘It’s almost an art restoration. We tend to regard the Frank Lloyd Wright building as one of the greatest objects in the collection’.”
Tag: 09.01.05
Paik: Crossover Is The Problem With Classical Music
Korean pianist Paik Kun-woo thinks that the problems of classical music have been mis-characterized: “The real problem is commercial misuse of classical music. Sacrificing the quality of music never makes things better. Classical music is wonderful and complete in itself. Fusing two different genres of music can only ruin the original values of both.”