Vertigo at the Vertical Museum

In reading Nicolai Ouroussoff’s trenchant appraisal in today’s NY Times of the “self-doubt and internal confusion” evidenced by the Whitney Museum’s revolving-door directors and architects, I realized that his (and Whitney director Adam Weinberg‘s) critique of Renzo Piano‘s design for the Whitney’s all-but-aborted on-site expansion could also apply to what Roberta Smith, in Wednesday’s NY Times, termed the “poor layout” of the Museum of Modern Art.
Part of the problem is that MoMA has changed from a horizontal museum to a vertical one, with galleries stacked on six levels. (The Whitney’s new galleries would have been stacked on seven levels.) This could be one of the reasons for what I recently called “MoMA’s post-expansion penchant for inconveniently dividing up major shows between distant parts of the building,” as in the current Brice Marden retrospective—paintings on Six, drawings on Three.
Ladies’ lingerie on Two?