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A few years back, the decision to move the Barnes, a respected American art institution, from its current location in the suburb
A few years back, the decision to move the Barnes, a respected American art institution, from its current location in the suburb
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2012-05-17
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A few years back, the decision to move the Barnes, a respected American art institution, from its current location in the suburban town of Merion, Pa., to a site in Philadelphia’s museum district caused an argument — not only because it shamelessly went against the will of the founder, Albeit C. Barnes, but also because it threatened to dismantle(拆开) a relationship among art, architecture and landscape critical to the Barnes’s success as a museum.
For any architect taking on the challenge of the new space, the confusion of moral and design questions might seem overwhelming. What is an architect’s responsibility to Barnes’s vision of a marvelous but odd collection of early Modern artworks housed in a rambling (布局凌乱的) 1920s Beaux-Arts pile? Is it possible to reproduce its spirit in such a changed setting? Or does trying to replicate (复制) the Barnes’s unique atmosphere only doom you to failure? The answers of the New York architects taking the commission are not reassuring.
The new Barnes will include many of the features that have become virtually mandatory (强制性 的) in the museum world today — conservation and education departments, temporary exhibition space, auditorium, bookstore, cafe — making it four times the size of the old Barnes. The architects have tried to compensate for this by laying out these spaces in an elaborate architectural procession that is clearly intended to replicate the peacefulness, if not the fantastic charm, of the old museum.
But the result is a complicated design. Almost every detail seems to ache from the strain of trying to preserve the spirit of the original building in a very different context. The failure to do so, despite such an earnest effort, is the strongest argument yet for why the Barnes should not be moved in the first place.
The old Barnes is by no means an obvious model for a great museum. Inside the lighting is far from perfect, and the collection itself, mixing masterpieces by Cezanne, Picasso and Soutine with second-rate paintings by lesser-known artists, has a distinctly odd flavor. But these apparent flaws are also what have made the Barnes one of the country’s most charming exhibition spaces.
But today the new Barnes is after a different kind of audience. Although museum officials say the existing limits on crowd size will be kept, it is clearly meant to draw bigger numbers and more tourist dollars. For most visitors the relationship to the art will feel less immediate.
The biggest challenge architects face in building the new Barnes is______.
选项
A、the ethical and design problems
B、the difficulty to retain its original peacefulness
C、the lack of confidence in undertaking the task
D、the difficulty to put all the artworks in a smaller space
答案
A
解析
第二段首句提到,对任何一个接受建立新址挑战的建筑师来说,道德困惑和设计问题看起来可能是令人无法承受的。题干中的The…challenge就是指文中的the confusion of moral and design questions,最高级biggest是seem overwhelming的同义转述,故答案为[A]。同时,可以看出,建筑师们感到困惑,而非缺乏足够的自信,故排除[C];第三段末句中that引导的定语从句说到,这一建筑队列旨在复制旧博物馆的宁静,这说明保持与旧址一样的宁静是可以实现的,算不上最大的挑战,故排除[B];第三段首句结尾提到,这使得它(新的巴恩斯)的面积是旧的巴恩斯的四倍,很明显[D]中的smaller与此矛盾,故排除。
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