The Test of Time

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
We celebrate the 50th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright's groundbreaking design for the New York home of the Guggenheim Museum with Thomas Krens and David van der Leer. Then, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson tells us what Manhattan looked like before European settlers arrived here. And film historians Steve Massa and Ben Model discuss a new series of silent-era slapstick comedies at the Museum of Modern Art. Plus, Elizabeth Edwards.

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