Diana's Sentiment[?] At the top of the grand stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is an enormous bronze sculpture of Diana the Huntress, poised gracefully on the toes of one foot and with bow and arrow ready for a strike--this setting very much reenacts the Winged Victory at the Louvre. Diana was originally the weathervane of the first Madison Square Garden. When the new Madison Square Garden was being designed/constructed in the 1960s, New York Mayor Lindsey(?) wrote to Philadelphia Mayor Tate and asked that Diana might be returned to New York to again be part of Madison Square Garden. Mayor Tate nicely but resolutely replied that "Diana thinks New York is a nice place to visit, but she wouldn't want to live there."
[I guess I'm trying to somehow come to grips with my own growing sentiment regarding architecture being a nice place be but I wouldn't like to practice it, at least not in the 'real' world.] |
Quondam © 2007.10.14 |