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Franz Kline
Nov 23, 2025
Franz Kline
Nov 23, 2025

Franz Kline's Black, White, and Gray (1959) is nearly nine feet tall and nearly seven feet wide. I came across it in person at the Met a few months ago. It’s overwhelming…

Nov 23, 2025
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Jun 1, 2025
Ingre's La Grande Odalisque
Jun 1, 2025

Ingres is reputed to have said that he could paint a nude with only mud, provided he had a full palette for the background.

Jun 1, 2025
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May 24, 2025
Barnett Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimus
May 24, 2025

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.

May 24, 2025
Rothko at the Vuitton Foundation
Mar 23, 2025
Rothko at the Vuitton Foundation
Mar 23, 2025

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.

Mar 23, 2025
Louis Kahn: Building and Being
Mar 23, 2025
Louis Kahn: Building and Being
Mar 23, 2025

The Kimball Art Museum is now fifty years old, and looks no different than the day it was finished.

Mar 23, 2025
Arcosanti: An Aquarian Utopia
Mar 23, 2025
Arcosanti: An Aquarian Utopia
Mar 23, 2025

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. 

Mar 23, 2025
Taliesen West
Mar 23, 2025
Taliesen West
Mar 23, 2025

Taliesen West is a geometric interpretation of nature, an expression of what Wright meant by an "organic” architecture.

Mar 23, 2025
Marfa: The Work of Donald Judd
Mar 23, 2025
Marfa: The Work of Donald Judd
Mar 23, 2025

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.

Mar 23, 2025
The Triglyph Dilemma
Mar 18, 2025
The Triglyph Dilemma
Mar 18, 2025

One of the great mysteries of Greek architecture which defies rational explanation is something known as the Triglyph Dilemma.

Mar 18, 2025