It must have been a slow day in the New York Times when an article appeared that talks about the color blue. But, like
Category: Art
Are Museums Intimidating? First Impressions Count
…but I’d wager that the more appropriate adjectives for describing what reluctant museum-goers feel about museums include “boring,” “bewildering,” and “confusing,” because there isn’t enough way-finding information.
What is your experience of entering a large museum for the first time?
Fondation le Corbusier / Villa la Roche – A Lovely Walk in the 16th in Paris
La Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France (1950)
Einstein understands le Corbusier.
As one turns from
Le Cabanon le Corbusier – Relevant Today?
Entrance hall, le Cabanon in le Bon Marché
In 1949, le Corbusier, while vacationing in the south of France, sketched
Paul Schimmel and Sanford Biggers – Experience or Interpretation?
The artificial construction people make is that painting is not intellectual, and does not involve much thinking, but involves psychic or subconscious pressures which are released through the act of painting. But I think painting like mine shows obvious kinds of hesitation and reworking which people associate with thought. — Jasper Johns
Allegheny Spring – Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
Fallingwater, Pennsylvania (April, 2012)
Trip of a lifetime!
Wright had surprised, and occasionally tested
Robert Smithson’s Dream Come True – In a Quarry Hotel in Shanghai?
Land Art in the form of a hotel?
More than that – it’s also an aquatic park, aquarium, rock climber’s haven… not to mention extreme sports fanatics’ playground. Best of all, all these will provide great entertainment for the hotel guests on their balcony, win-win, I imagine.
London Spring – No Stone Unturned…
St Paul’s cathedral over the Millenium bridge from Tate Modern
Going to the Tate Galleries in London for me is like reading the New York Times.
Art Basel Miami Beach, 2011 – Iemanjá
Venice Biennale 2011 – Plasticine Playground
Jan25(#Sidibouzid,#Feb12,#Feb14,#Feb17…) by Norma Jeane, 2011
This is the one room in the main Biennale international exhibition in the Giardini that had more