"The New York City Buildings Department, leery of unconventional designs, would probably have nixed the project were it not for Robert Moses, the city's master builder and destroyer. Moses hated modern art and didn't like Wright's design, either. But the two men were distant cousins, so out of friendship Moses rammed through the application, telling the buildings commissioner, 'Damn it, get a permit for Frank, I don't care how many laws you have to break.'"
Fred Kaplan in Slate marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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