WaPost Weighs In

What else can you say of a review in the Washington Post applauding us for having the guts to build a new museum to celebrate our sorry little burgh?

My friend Stacey in Washington forwarded the review of the new Akron Art Museum from Washington Post staff writer Philip Kennicott, who sort of thinks we're the better for the museum that he compared to a Transformer toy. We are, after all, a "...small, Rust Belt city just south of Cleveland...this low-slung city of gritty buildings...(home of) the dutiful and sometimes tacky Akron convention center or the National Inventors Hall of Fame..."

Wait. There's more.

"But it's also possible that, paradoxically, Akron is behind the times just enough to be ahead of the curve when it comes to building serious and challenging buildings," a testament to architect Coop Himmelb(l)au "...doing cutting-edge work, its rhetoric is intellectually mired in the same era that saw the decline of Akron."

At least, Mrs. Lincoln, the play was enjoyable.