It rarely gets better than this: Frank Gehry has been booted from the job of designing the Theater for a New Audience in the BAM Cultural District in Fort Greene, but found out about it via a call from a New York Times reporter. The theater’s director, on the other hand, says the de-Frankification of the project (leaving Hugh Hardy as sole architect) was due to “Mr. Gehry’s busy schedule and the need to finish the design within a few months, a process that included a site change in June.” And so, “Frank is unable to contribute to this final phase of design…Frank Gehry has said to us, ‘I’m sorry that I have to withdraw, but I’m a great fan of Hugh’s, and Theater for a New Audience is going to have a terrific theater.’” Mr. Gehry told the reporter that it was all news to him: “I didn’t even know they were starting over again. I suppose they didn’t need two of us.” Mr. Gehry also said of Mr. Hardy: “He’s quite adequate for the job without me.” Utterly fascinating.–NYT