Quote of the Day: Michael Kimmelman
Bruce Goff's design for a never-built Las Vegas hotel "[Bruce] Goff worked on some 500 projects before his death, nearly 130 of which were ultimately built, an astonishing total for someone who, during his last years, worked out of a spare room in a borrowed house in Tyler, Tex. that he shared with his cat and mother. "David G. De Long, Goff’s biographer, writing in the show’s catalog, recalls visiting Goff at that house, watching him sketch and tend to his correspondence from a glass-topped desk adorned with Christmas ornaments and a vase of peacock feathers. Each afternoon at half past four, De Long remembers, Goff quit to watch 'Star Trek' reruns." —Michael Kimmelman's New York Times review of the Art Institute of Chicago's "Bruce Goff: Material Worlds" Bruce Goff's Japanese Pavilion as seen from Peter Zumthor's David Geffen Galleries, 2025 Kimmelman rates Goff's Japanese Pavilion at LACMA "a masterpiece of 20th century...
