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night when all the shows were removed. [[strikethrough]] The Guggenh [[/strikethrough]] 

RS The Guggenheim's organic architecture, like intestines, [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] reduces everything in it to waste products.

AK There is a whole theory of architecture and city planning in N.Y. and all over which sees the city as the human body. Metaphors: The Museum of Modern Art is more like a department store, a swank department store. It is a boutique where you can't really buy anything. Frick is a personal collection which is like a little palace, The Met just a palace. [[strikethrough]] The Frick is [[/strikethrough]] the American idea of aristocracy.

AK Can you make a blanket statement that museums are an absolute waste of time?

RS I do think they are obsolete, but I think obsolescence is like a whole fertile area of inquiry. To begin with [[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] the obsolete, instead of going toward obsolescence, is an interesting area to explore.

RK This is a constantly moving thing which is challenging us. It is very hard to speak of something that doesn't exists and to make a blanket statement. I would rather work at it. I would rather go back to the initial reference to life and art.

AK As long as we discuss life and art, the two categories, the distinctions will logically follow. It will keep these two things separate and all that you have discussed will be all on one side or the other.

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