OFF THE WALL

When film is the dominant art form of our time, when poetry is growing an ever-larger audience, when architecture is exhibited and reviewed as art and when the most interesting abstract work of the past decade has been done in the medium of cuisine, Times art critic Christopher Knight dares to wonder how a museum can renovate itself without expanding its gallery space (“Putting Up a Grand Facade,” March 10).

The answer is simple: Wall art itself now holds only a marginal position in the contemporary arts. San Diego’s Museum of Contemporary Art is right on the beat with the ‘90s. Knight is arriere-garde.

RICHARD GLEAVES

San Diego