EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
MoMA Staff
Artists
New York Times Review of the exhibition
PUBLISHED
8 September 1985
MUSEUMS SET THE TONE IN ARCHITECTURE
This season in architecture will belong, more than any in years, to the museum. Three museum buildings of national importance will open in the first few weeks of autumn: the National Building Museum - housed in one of Washington's greatest works of 19th-century architecture, the Pension Building -will open its doors Sept. 20; the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, by the distinguished architect Charles Moore, will make its debut with a weeklong series of events at the end of September, and the Sackler Wing, a major addition to Harvard's Fogg Art Museum and the first museum in the United States by the great British architect James Stirling, will open in October. But it is not only as works of architecture in themselves that museums will hold our attention. The season will be spanned by two major exhibitions - an extensive review of 20th-century American design at the Whitney Museum, which will open Sept. 19 and run through Feb. 16, and an elaborate, wide-ranging retrospective of the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Museum of Modern Art from Feb. 5 through April 16, 1986. The exhibition at the Modern, which will draw heavily from the museum's Mies van der Rohe Archive, celebrates the centennial of Mies's birth on March 27, 1886.
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