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One could easily ask "Why Wright now?" about the blockbuster exhibition "Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect," which has taken over both floors of the Museum of Modern Art's temporary exhibit space in New York through May 10. There is no significant anniversary to commemorate, and Wright's rehabilitation -- to the extent that he ever needed one -- has been observed for the past several years. Further, MoMA's show doesn't offer a Wright buff much in the way of new interpretation or information.
All that said, the exhibit is an inspiring, enjoyable show even for those familiar with Wright's work. But an audience of architects and historians wouldn't justify a show of this magnitude; this is a show for the general public, documenting the work of perhaps the one architect who could merit this kind of treatment in America. (Even the Museum of Contemporary Art's "Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture," a blockbuster by architectural standards, was much smaller than this.) Like the blockbuster art exhibitions of the past...