Tag: Memory-History-Geometry
Art Appreciation A rectangle in memory of Harvard mathematician George Mackey: The five Log24 entries ending at 7:00 PM on March 14, 2006, the last day of Mackey's…
Minimalism "It's become our form of modern classicism." — Nancy Spector in the New York Times of April 23, 2004 Part I: Aesthetics In honor of the current…
For Fred Sandback: Time's a Round The following entry of Feb. 25, 2003, was written for painter Mark Rothko, and may serve as well for minimalist artist Fred…
ART WARS: Geometry for Jews Today is Michelangelo's birthday. Those who prefer the Sistine Chapel to the Rothko Chapel may invite their Jewish friends to answer the following…
For Mark Rothko Plagued in life by depression — what Styron, quoting Milton, called "darkness visible" — Rothko took his own life on this date in 1970. As a…
Song of Not-Self A critic on the abstract expressionists: "…they painted that reality — that song of self — with a passion, bravura, and decisiveness unequaled in modern…