Wednesday, January 02, 2013

If Dr. Barnes wanted you to glimpse it, either too high or too low, always too far away, from the stairs ...

... then that's the way you'll glimpse it, dammit.

Rejoicing in the Wall Street Journal, Karen Wilkin doesn't seem to grasp the obvious point that the intentions of a long-dead donor (however hazily expressed) are far more important than "being able to study this glorious, prescient vision of a pastoral idyll at eye level, close up."