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contemporary Christian pen- chant for lowering the faith’s emotional horizons to the level of the maudlin sentimentality infusing the secular culture. It was almost encouraging to observe the insouciance with which a noisy band of schoolchildren ran their hands along the casts while dashing down the ramps.

One exits the ramps into a lower lobby that is a model of spatial disorientation, with a curving wall veering off to one side, and a tilted wall sloping down on the other. A short, claustrophobic corridor leads you into the large space containing five Schlossberg-designed galleries. The abiding impression of this space is one of clutter. You look up to an industrial tangle of dropped ceilings, exposed systems, track lighting, and hemispherical plastic canopies with speakers inside. Suspended photographic and artistic images hang all around, and at eye level a plethora of video screens flash. It’s like a Nobody Beats the Wiz designed by Frank Gehry.

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contemporary Christian pen- chant for lowering the faith’s emotional horizons to the level of the maudlin sentimentality infusing the secular culture. It was almost encouraging to observe the insouciance with which a noisy band of schoolchildren ran their hands along the casts while dashing down the ramps.

One exits the ramps into a lower lobby that is a model of spatial disorientation, with a curving wall veering off to one side, and a tilted wall sloping down on the other. A short, claustrophobic corridor leads you into the large space containing five Schlossberg-designed galleries. The abiding impression of this space is one of clutter. You look up to an industrial tangle of dropped ceilings, exposed systems, track lighting, and hemispherical plastic canopies with speakers inside. Suspended photographic and artistic images hang all around, and at eye level a plethora of video screens flash. It’s like a Nobody Beats the Wiz designed by Frank Gehry.