Shocked To Learn The Kimbell Art Museum Is No Longer The World's Most Beautiful Work Of Modern Architecture

You are looking at a screen cap here from the Wikipedia article about Fort Worth, with some representative images of Fort Worth, including the Modern Museum of Art, but not the Kimbell Art Museum.

Way back in 2012 I blogged a blogging titled Someone Thinks Fort Worth Is The Location Of The Most Beautiful Work Of Modern Architecture In The World, after I read the following in the Wikipedia article about Fort Worth....

"Fort Worth is home to the Kimbell Art Museum, considered to have one of the best collections in the world, and housed in what is widely regarded as the most beautiful work of modern architecture in the world."

By the time I read the above I had long grown used to the tendency to hyperbole employed way too often in Fort Worth by some entities when describing some perfectly ordinary thing in Fort Worth.

But, to claim the Kimbell Art Museum is widely regarded as the most beautiful work of modern architecture in the world was so over the top ridiculous I found it an embarrassingly stupid assertion to make.

A person named Anonymous, with a reading comprehension problem, commented....

Anonymous said...
I know you like to dog on all things Fort Worth, but please leave your personal distaste for the city aside on this one. The Kimbell *is* widely regarded as an architectural masterpiece. Just googling Louis Kahn and the Kimbell should tell you this. See also this article from the New York Times.

I never bothered to read the article Anonymous was directing me to, as there was no need. Instead I responded with....

Durango said...
Anonymous, I am aware the Kimbell building is well regarded architecturally. I did not indicate otherwise. What I was dogging was the ridiculous claim that this building is widely regarded as the most beautiful work of modern architecture in the world.

So, now to the point of this particular blogging. Yesterday I once again happened upon the Wikipedia Fort Worth entry to see that the Kimbell Art Museum is no longer widely regarded as the most beautiful work of modern architecture in the world.

This is what the article now says about the Kimbell Art Museum...

The Kimbell Art Museum, considered to have one of the best collections in Texas, is housed in what is widely regarded as one of Texas' foremost works of modern architecture designed by Louis Kahn and Renzo Piano.

Now, isn't that a lot better? No ridiculous hyperbole, no embarrassing exaggeration. Just an honest statement that no one should find objectionable. Or stupid.

On a related note, yesterday an incoming blog comment was along this same theme, as in objecting to Cowtown hyperbole....

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Texas Is A Large State With Deserts Pine Forests Houston And The Rio Grande":

The Fort Worth Business Press pulp fiction writers and Dud Kennedy should edit the Texas Google page to portray Cowtown in a better light. Fort Worth will outwit, outplay and outlast you! Fort Worth's bold moves and relentless success takes it to the next level! TCU slapping their name on the Osteopathic Medical school is a game changing bold move according to the lap dogs at the FW Biz Press. The Cowtown Way's bluster and blather makes me ill.

Yeah, the bluster and blather really are a bit much at times.

Regarding the Wikipedia article about Fort Worth, I find it interesting that there is absolutely no mention made of the Trinity River Uptown Central City Gator Island Vision Project, known worldwide as America's Biggest Boondoggle.

Fort Worth's Congresswoman, Kay Granger, has indicated she thinks this project is currently the biggest urban water project underway in North America. Yet no mention made in the Wikipedia article about Fort Worth.

Ms. Granger's blustery blathery claim is sort of an insult to urban zones of North America which have actual urban water projects underway with a bit more complexity than building three little simple bridges in four years to connect the mainland to an imaginary island, while hosting dozens of inner tube floating parties in the polluted Trinity River, while waiting for a ditch to be dug under the three simple little bridges, sometime in the future, with that future being more than four years from now.

How can a Wikipedia article about Fort Worth not mention that town is currently hosting America's Biggest Boondoggle? Makes one question the accuracy of that which one reads in Wikipedia. Then again, Wikipedia did fix that embarrassing most beautiful work of modern architecture in the world nonsense.

So, maybe soon an entry will be made in the Wikipedia article to include America's Biggest Boondoggle, run by Kay Granger's son, J.D., a highly trained civil engineer specializing in urban water projects....