Art, Photo & Misc.
Cloud City, 2012.
At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (May 15 - November 4, 2012).
“Color in the subway was different. I found that the strobe light reflecting off the steel surfaces of the defaced subway cars created a new understanding of color. I had seen photographs of deep-sea fish thousands of fathoms below the ocean surface, glowing in total darkness once light had been applied. People in the subway, their flesh juxtaposed against the graffiti, the penetrating effect of the strobe light itself, and even the hollow darkness of the tunnels, inspired an aesthetic that goes unnoticed by passengers who are trapped underground, hiding behind masks, and closed off from each other.”
Bruce Davidson, from a New York Times Review of Books excerpt of the introduction to his book Subway. (Previously.)(via blech)
Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, (Borromini, 1642-60) and the Guggenheim Museum (F. L. Wright, 1946-59).
Scan from B. Zevi’s Leggere, scrivere, parlare architettura (1997).
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1963-66.
“The Whitney has broken ground on a 200,000-square-foot building in downtown Manhattan. Located in the Meatpacking District on Gansevoort Street between West Street and the High Line, the new building, designed by architect Renzo Piano, will provide the Whitney with essential new space for its collection, exhibitions, and education and performing arts programs in one of New York’s most vibrant neighborhoods”. (Text from Museum’s page)
