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The Obama Presidential Center Is Decidedly Meh

‘You can go through and weep, as many liberals have — the center has even placed tissue boxes in the museum spaces.’

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If you remember Barack Obama’s official presidential portrait, you know what his new presidential library-that-isn’t-a-library is like: highly unconventional, tediously provocative, instantly forgettable.

On the political right, pictures of the big Battlestar Galactica museum tower are being taken as evidence that the place is a hideously ugly architectural abomination. It’s not that interesting. It’s ugly, but it’s a brutalist stub of a building in Chicago. Complaining about a squat gray tower in Chicago is like b-tching about scones in a bakery. The thing fits into its place, dull and ordinary while it tries to be wild. It’s Barack Obama, an appearance that never grows into substance. Above all, it’s incoherent:

I … uh … what? It sucks, but you can’t really bother to hate it. It merits a shrug, and then you can leave. Why is the right side covered in bumps? Dunno. Why is a long white translucent window gouged into the middle of its face? Dunno. Why is there a notch chunked out of the left side that produces an overhang? Dunno. I spent several hours here today, and I dunno. The building … exists.

The other side has some scribbling.

Let’s capture a close-up for a better look at........

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