Wow, this is a whole different museum. It seems he was actually there and loved seeing these shapes and their allusion to the art within as much as I did.
I stayed in a well known guest house of his in New Mexico. He used the same diamond plaster walls. He made picture windows to the outside. He made a lot of mistakes but seeing this all is forgiven.
The outside is almost a generic metal building, made of glass sandwiched with something that makes an elegant Agnes Martin line or I thought of Robert Mangold-- which shows up inside repeatedly.
Somehow a curve shows up and makes a distinctive gallery, again respectful to the art, rather than taking it over for itself.
There is even a cathedral like space one feels.
The paintings look great from Rothenberg, Murray, sadly died yesterday, which this makes a great memorial-- then Salle, Guston, and Dunham.
The Winters and Scully, in Denver looking iffy, would have looked good here too on these substantial walls.
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