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National Geographic : 1960 Dec
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Bands of Light Wrap the Guggenheim Museum "A hot cross bun in concrete," say critics of the Fifth Avenue building, Frank Lloyd Wright's only New York monument, seen at dusk from Central Park. "The perfect setting for modern art," proponents reply. Thousands tour the structure daily to view the late Solomon R. Guggenheim's collection of works by Picasso, Kandinsky, Modigliani, and many others. Visitors take an elevator to the top of a spiral ramp, then follow a corkscrew course downward past paintings that seem to float on walls of light. Brancusi's "Sorceress" (below) occupies a pedestal on the ground floor. "Hey!" he announced. "It's almost time for dinner!" The chief of the bad guys, who had been busy loading his long, menacing Buntline Spe cial with a fresh roll of caps, looked at his wrist watch. "Yep," he said, "I reckon we'd better be a-moseyin' along." Friend and foe moseyed along into the setting sun, to ward the Columbus Circle subway station. 809
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