Muschamp in Arcadia

Herbert's back. And up to his old tricks, spewing ruminations on - of all things - Art Nouveau and the 1960's. Not to mention old favorites like Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid.



A sampling:

Art Nouveau was a protean style. Those tendrils made for excellent shape shifting: flower stems, flowing tresses, sea grass, drapery, smoke, snakes, sonic reverberations, aroma, the emanations of lost souls. . . .

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There were real snakes in Art Nouveau's imaginary gardens. Some of them wanted to be petted. Others could swallow you whole.

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But how great it was to be young and neurotic in the 1960's! Nowadays, just about everyone is an uncontrollable misfit, but around 1960 it was just you, Montgomery Clift and Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates. Those were the days.

Oh, Herbert!