CITY COUNCIL ADMITS PITTSBURGH STOLE MUSEUM AND USES IT AS PARKING GARAGE. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO IT?" CRIES GUGENHEIM'S CURATORPITTSBURGH - After months of denials, members of Pittsburgh City Council admitted in an emotional emergency session today that the city had, indeed, purloined the Guggenheim Museum from New York City, and that it uses the world famous building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright as a parking garage between Smithfield Street and Liberty Avenue. Under pressure from New York City officials and the New York news media, Council unanimously voted to return the famous structure to New York City.
The Guggenheim's curator Jingo Bang immediately chartered a plane to Pittsburgh to inspect the building. "What have you done to it?" he cried as he drove down Smithfield Street. "It's practically unrecognizable."
City Council's decision to return the building to New York came within days of the plea by British Prime Minister Tony Blair that Pittsburgh return pieces of Stonehenge, which he claims the city stole and is hiding in Mellon Green, a small park between the USX Tower and One Mellon Center. http://carbolicsmokeblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/great-britain-accuses-pittsburgh-of.html To date, Council has refused Blair's request.
