Speaking of the Denver Art Museum…

It was CultureGrrl who told you first, on May 18, that “in a red-flag division of labor, the museum decided to assign its own designer, Dan Kohl, to lay out the interior walls for the galleries, finessing [Daniel] Libeskind‘s challenging, quirky angles with some traditionally shaped spaces.
Paul Goldberger got around to this in his Aug. 28 piece for The New Yorker:
The task of making surfaces that you can actually hang paintings on has gone…to Daniel Kohl, the museum’s installation designer….To the extent that Libeskind’s building is workable as a museum, it is Kohl who has made it so.
But Goldberger did manage to leapfrog the entire cultural press corps by publishing his lukewarm assessment of
the new facility a full month before the media preview. However, in observing that Denver took “a risk” by “giving Libeskind the freedom denied to him in New York,” Goldberger has created chronological confusion: The architect got his Denver assignment in July 2000, long before he won the master-plan competition for the World Trade Center site in 2003.