EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
MoMA Staff
Director
Arthur Drexler
American, 1921–1987
Artists
New York Times Review of the exhibition
PUBLISHED
23 August 1959
The Breakthrough of Buckminster Fuller; The success story of the man behind the geodesic dome follows a classic pattern: years of dismissal, then sudden, world-wide renown.
IN Moscow's wooded Sokolniki Park, shortly before the opening of the American National Exhibition, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev got his first view of Buckminster Fuller's gold-tinted "geodesic" dome, the structure that houses the main display at the fair.
New York Times • page SM14 • 2,665 words