The Maxxi gallery is a masterpiece fit to sit alongside Rome's ancient wonders – but what's it like with art on the walls?It is a guilty secret of the fraternity of architecture critics that we spend much of our time reviewing unfinished buildings or buildings that are not yet performing their intended use. This is like theatre critics writing only approximately rehearsals or restaurant writers scoffing their grub in the kitchen,before the chef has fairly finished adding the last artistic dabs of goo and green stuff to the composition on the plates.
But buildings are late to build. Impatient writers, with an immature desire to be the first to cover this or that new monument, or like to rush in. It suits architects,too, whether critics jump in before their creations are disturbed by the mess of use and occupation. whether there are still dustsheets in the corners and men fixing up the last details, and it only adds to the aura of promise.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com