The NY Times reviews a retrospective of Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings, and includes a slideshow of some of them.
No rush: they will be on display at Mass MoCA for the next twenty-five years.
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From the category archives:
Place
In his lecture “What makes a building unique?” (TED Video), Moshe Safdie describes his 1976 design for the Children’s Memorial Museum at the Yad Veshem Holocaust Museum.
Instead of displaying artifacts, Safdie chose to use a cave, filled with reflections from a single candle extending to infinity:
Reflected candle inside the cave
(Photo by: marstheinfomage)
More images available on Flickr:
- Beautiful color — one of several in this set
- With comments in Italian
- Not as colorful, but has a good description
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BBC news has a narrated slideshow of Eamonn McCabe’s series of photographs of writers’ rooms.
(Click the ‘Show captions’ link below the slideshow to see the names of the writers — though it’s kind of fun to guess.)
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NY Times has a five-minute video about turning waves into landscapes.
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I’m re-reading Alain de Botton’s “The Art of Travel” which connected me with Edward Hopper for the first time.
Early, and unpeopled:
Road in Maine (1914)
Blackhead, Monhegan (1916-1919)
Later, with solitary figures:
Hotel Room (1931)
Automat (1927)
Monochrome and solitary:
Solitary Figure in a Theatre (1902-1904)
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