http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/6132/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/architecture-critic-spies-jingoism-new-museums-9-11-exhibit <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Who would have thought a museum about journalism could be slammed as bordering on &quot;jingoism&quot;? Nicolai Ouroussoff does it: &quot;The suggestion is that the values of a free press and a free market are one and the same.&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>The Newseum (which is just what it sounds like) opened in the nation's capital last weekend in a prominent spot along Pennsylvania Avenue. Times' architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff found the design by turns "muddled" and "slapdash," but really disapproved of the political messages he managed to discern in a 9-11 exhibit titled "Attack on America," whichOuroussoff found to border "precariously on jingoism."</p><br /> <p>From his Friday review, "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/arts/design/11arch.html " target="_self">Get Me Rewrite: A New Monument to Press Freedom</a>."</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/architecture-critic-spies-jingoism-new-museums-9-11-exhibit" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch 9-1 Architecture Jingoism Newseum NewYorkTimes NicolaiOuroussoff NYTimes TimesWatch TimesWatch.org Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:16:00 +0000 admin 6102 at http://archive2.mrc.org