One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s fantasies for his design of the Guggenheim Museum was to color it pink. You can see how that might have looked in a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art: Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive. If you can’t get to MoMA, you can see what it might also have looked like colored cherokee red or orange — which Wright also had in mind — by clicking Michael Kimmelman’s takeout about the show and Wright’s flights of fancy. Or you can have a look here:
Either of those colors would have been an improvement on the final decision to make the museum white. But Richard Hamilton had a better idea:
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Guggenheim photomontage by Richard Hamilton [1967]
