Plus, plus ça change at the museum of modern art in New York

The selection of Yoshio Taniguchi, in 1997, to design the Museum of Modern Artʹs enormous expansion was generally considered conservative, if not outright old-fashioned. When the museum reopened in November 2004, most critics described the new scheme as contextual or subtle, and noted that the architect had said he had tried to make the architecture go away. Now that enough time has passed to blur expectations, Jayne Merkel looks at MoMA as it is today. She contends that the choice was progressive in exactly the way the museum has been all along, and that the architecture is very much there.