David Seif

I wish this place would tear down the ugly chain link fencing and the barbed wire. The plants really don't need that kind of protection. The bad old days are over. Get with the times - it's an eyesore and makes it look so unwelcoming.

It's always closed. It seems to be run by one person with a key who comes by 3 times a year with the relatives. It was incredibly well planted but over the years it has become cluttered with plastic lawn furniture, electricity rigged illegally and unsafely by tapping into the lamp post, and other. Back when the neighborhood still had bullets flyinf it was a gem and an island of civilization. Now it's simply look don't touch. The city should take it back clear away all the trashy clutter and unlock the fence during the day, everyday. It's not private property but the family with the key treats it that way, and I don't think they still live in the neighborhood as they are never there.

The darkness prevails and is completely inexplicable.
The gallery was purpose built in a made to order building (at no small cost) and so there is no reason it has no source of natural light.
This review is not for the exhibits nor the staff — no complaints there. The star was earned for the fact that the gallery is large and exists at all.
Testimony to the fact that the starchitect, like Piano, uses a lot of interns to iron out the pesky details in the blueprints and doesn't stay late at the office anymore. Columbia should have gone with someone who had preserved an eye for detail or at least basics because the gallery of dark is a black eye on Piano's firm.