Billy Idol Still Has Some Rebel Yell To Give
By CAROLINE McCAUGHEY
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When you think of all the immigrant groups that have made America great, the Swiss typically don’t come to mind. So I was curious to see “Small Number: Big Impact: Swiss Immigration to the United States,” on view at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. The exhibition design had less of the cool austerity of the Swiss modernists Herzog and de Meuron, or the stateliness of Mario Botta (my favorite contemporary Swiss architect), and more of the slapdash of the Dutchman Rem Koolhaas. In six intercommunicating rooms are, on one’s right, glass display cases with sections each devoted to a different Swiss immigrant who had a “big impact”on life in America.In the bottom parts of the cases are pull-out metal drawers that contain mini-displays on more Swiss immigrants or progeny thereof.On the tops of the cases are video projectors throwing images and video vignettes presumably having to do with the figures described. (I say presumably because I am incapable of focusing on video displays in museums.)
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|When you think of all the immigrant groups that have made America great, the Swiss typically don’t come to mind. So I was curious to see “Small Number: Big Impact: Swiss Immigration to the United States,” on view at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. The exhibition design had less of the cool austerity of the Swiss modernists Herzog and de Meuron, or the stateliness of Mario Botta (my favorite contemporary Swiss architect), and more of the slapdash of the Dutchman Rem Koolhaas. In six intercommunicating rooms are, on one’s right, glass display cases with sections each devoted to a different Swiss immigrant who had a “big impact”on life in America.In the bottom parts of the cases are pull-out metal drawers that contain mini-displays on more Swiss immigrants or progeny thereof.On the tops of the cases are video projectors throwing images and video vignettes presumably having to do with the figures described. (I say presumably because I am incapable of focusing on video displays in museums.)
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