The Museum of Modern Art is moving to Queens? It’s only for three years during reconstruction of the permanent West 53rd location, but you have to wonder how many tourists with outdated guidebooks or intact memories from past visits are going to be disappointed. Shuffling off to Queens when you were expecting to spend a day in Manhattan is quite a change of pace. Yoshio Taniguchi is the architect for the rebuild which “presents an elegant interplay of stone, metal, and glass in which new spaces combine with the original architecture to form a cohesive whole.” The Queens location is in an old Swingline staple factory and has ample space and its own designers to make sure it is welcoming and worthy, albeit temporary, housing for the ongoing exhibits. (NY Times article on relocation)