Frank Lloyd Wright at MoMA

De Monchaux discusses "Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive," an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art. As curator Barry Bergdoll explains in the show's introductory text, "Unpacking the Archive" refers to the monumental task of moving across the country 55,000 drawings, 300,000 sheets of correspondence, 125,000 photographs, and 2,700 manuscripts, as well as models, films, and building fragments representing 1,000 building designs and 500 built works. While fully sounding the depths of the archive will take years, the breadth, variety, and scholarly chorus of "Unpacking the Archive" enables people to see the work of Wright--who as early as 1932 was already the ubiquitous, prodigious, overfamiliar, cliché- adjacent Frank Lloyd Wright--as if for the first time.