When you are within a few feet of this painting, you can no longer see where it begins or ends, and are simply gazing into its limitlessness.
Mark Rothko was found dead on the floor of his studio on February 25, 1970. What ensued from his death was the largest lawsuit ever to take place in the art world.
The Kimball Art Museum is now fifty years old, and looks no different than the day it was finished.
Like so many ventures of the 1970's, Biosphere 2 for example, Arcosanti is sometimes seen as merely a commune with no scalable significance. Yet it's hard to deny the charm of the place, and that of its inhabitants.
Taliesen West is a geometric interpretation of nature, an expression of what Wright meant by an "organic” architecture.
Texas is a set of extremes and contradictions, Marfa being one of them. When you arrive you are given no clues. Like SoHo in the 1970's, you just have to know where to go.
One of the great mysteries of Greek architecture which defies rational explanation is something known as the Triglyph Dilemma.
Ingres is reputed to have said that he could paint a nude with only mud, provided he had a full palette for the background.