ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the press preview of the new "Information" show at the Museum of Modern Art. Museum staffs work on very tight schedules. Even the most conventional exhibitions involve head-cracking logistical problems, and "Information" is no conventional exhibition. In any case, the absolute deadline for getting everything into place is not the press preview, which takes place during the day, but the poshier preview, complete with free drinks and "beautiful people," which takes place in the early evening. Speed is certainly one of the essential ingredients in the miracle of modern communications, but it remains utterly foreign to Manhattan's crosstown traffic. Kynaston McShine, the museum's Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture, who organized the show, was good enough to take people on a lengthy guided tour of the exhibition, explaining the rationale—of each item in it.
