Their plans call for building a second
museum building on the property in Potomac that will be far larger, and roughly comparable in size to the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Tricoci started digging around, looking for
properties they could model their idea
on, when he came across The Iron Horse Hotel in Milwaukee, a one - of - a-kind boutique hotel
built in a converted century - old mattress factory
on the Menomonee River near the Harley - Davidson
Museum.
AS THE LAWRENCE WEINER RETROSPECTIVE at the Whitney
Museum fades to white under multiple coats of Kilz and latex paint, and his various exuberant ephemera take up residence at LA MoCA before wending their way back to their rightful
property owners; as Tate Modern and the ICA London emerge from momentary spells of whispered headlines, random sketching, streams of consciousness, and face slapping; as New York's New
Museum concludes its vestigial assault
on the Work of Art, not to mention the etiquette of proper spacing, and as visitors to the new
building experience the worst case of buyer's remorse since the reopening of the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; as the Metropolitan
Museum's Dutch paintings readjust to the staid organizing principles of artist's name, date, and genre rather than hanging according to who bought what from whom (
on whose advice) and resold it to so - and - so, who then donated it to the Met; and as the scent of modesty - prosaic, charcoal filtered, crystalline - emanates from the 2008 Whitney Biennial, now is as good a time as any to talk about money.