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Gaffe Hall adds architects but subtracts art

The saga of the re-do of David Geffen Hall formerly known as Philharmonic Hall and Avery Fisher Hall is a long and tortured one. The #Hall was never beloved and now Deborah Borda has come from LA with her excellent musical bona fides adding Todd Williams and Billie Tsien to redo some of the lobby and public spaces, adding to an already full complement of architectural teams. They, of the recently torn down Folk Art Museum replaced by MoMA's new wing should therefore know better than to eliminate the Richard Lippold sculpture. You might better know Lippold from his marvelous Four Seasons restaurant sculpture which hangs over the bar (still extant in the current The Grill iteration). I am hoping they will reconsider and find a way to make use of it in the new Geffen Hall. I think David would like it!