There is no way my snapshots can do justice to the magnificent new Bloch Building, the addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum that recently opened to all sorts of well deserved hoopla here in my hometown of Kansas City.
And rather than go on about my impressions of it, I would rather link you to the exuberant and extremely well expressed ones that have been published in
The New Yorker, The New York Times and Time Magazine. Or just do a google search. Pretty much all the reviews have been absolutely stellar.
The addition garnered its share of criticism from local skeptics during the course of its construction. Many Kansas Citians claimed the “lenses” looked like temporary warehouses, or worse yet, storage bins for the construction equipment. Of course, lots of those same people hated the shuttlecocks when they were first installed on the sloping lawns around the old building.
At any rate, while Abbie and Sam were visiting from New Orleans, we made our first real trek over there. I thought the building looked amazing, and it wasn’t even dark out yet (that’s when everyone loves the glowing effects of the lighted lenses - even the doubters.) The photo exhibit that Keith Davis has put together is mind blowing.
During our visit to the museum store, Abbie and Sam obligingly overreacted for the camera as they discovered my book, Convergence, for sale on the shelves!
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