Miami Art Museum Lecture. By Geniusofdespair

Okay, I was really interested to hear Pierre de Meuron, of Herzog & de Meuron speak at the Lincoln Theater last night. His firm designed the Bird's Nest in Beijing. He did not disappoint. He wore one of those European narrow suits with pants bunched up around his ankles, very cool. They put a spotlight on him during the lecture and he stepped out of it, saying "NO." He wanted his work to shine not him. His lecture was pretty engaging. Then Christine Binswnager from his firm came on, who is in charge of the new Miami Art Museum project in Bicentennial Park. An aside: gals and fellas over there at MAM, no matter how many times you call it Museum Park -- it will still be Bicentennial Park to us. You took the park but damn, leave the name alone!

Anyway, Christine spoke haltingly slow, enunciating every syllable and then she got hoarse and was having trouble getting the words out so it got slower still. I wanted to rush on stage and stuff a cough drop down her throat. It was pretty painful to sit through, like watching the Marlins in the 8th inning with a score of 25 to 2 (Marlins with the 2). But hey, that is another public space we don't want to think about.