"Marking Spaces: New York City's Landmark HIstoric Districts" at the Queens Museum of Art.

The recently formed NYC Landmarks50 Advisory Committee is wisely giving itself two full years to lead into the celebration of the Landmarks Preservation Commission formed in 1965.

As Art on the Block  describes, the Landmarks Commission was formed in the very late stages of Robert F. Wagner's third and final term as mayor. It was up to the incoming Lindsay administration, however, to put the law to work and to move into the next decade avoiding the kind of rash architectural destruction that led to the tear down of the historic McKim Mead and White Pennsylvania Station.

The Queens Museum of Art opens its "Marking Spaces: New York City landmark Historic Districts" on April 14th with a nice dust off of Robert Moses legendary Panorama. Designed in 1964 by Wagner's appropriately tagged "Master Builder,' the Panorama shows every building in the five boroughs constructed before 1992.

The exhibition's timing seems ironic in view of the debate raging around the Museum of Modern Art's decision to demolish the Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's Folk Art Museum, hardly a relic at 12 years old.

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