We recently returned to the Guggenheim Museum with a singular purpose: to revisit the handful of remarkable late paintings artist Alex Katz made of trees, lake, night. Those are really not the subject. He paints the sensation of seeing.
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Pierre Soulages Invites You To Experience the Light Beyond Black
In this mesmerizing little film, Pierre Soulages slowly works black pigment to create different effects of light. He describes the very personal conversation at the heart of his luminous black paintings.
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An Invitation to Slow Down with Something Different: James Turell’s Beautiful Skyspace 2 Ways
Here are two virtual ways to experience Jame’s Turell’s remarkable artwork, along with a poem by Emily Dickinson.
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Bent Copper Tubing Lamp Sculpture DIY (after Anna Fasshauer)
We’ve written about all sorts of practical things made out of copper pipe and tubing from room dividers to tables.The copper lighting we’ve posted has been simple, with one or two bends NOT the wonderfully freeform tangles of artist Anna Fasshauer’s light sculptures. Which seem, possibly, diy-able.
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