This Just Gets Curiouser And Curator
Two abstract paintings may have been hung the wrong way round by curators at the Tate Modern in London. The paintings by Mark Rothko, from the Black on Maroon series, have been hung vertically with bold stripes running from top to bottom. Despite the location of the artist's signature, the correct way to display the works has never been agreed on.
FOOTNOTE: Horrid zontal.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
Thursday, October 11, 2007
You Crack Me Up
No Spasms, Just Chasms
The latest installation in the Tate Modern gallery's massive Turbine Hall is a 550-foot crack in the floor. Colombian artist Doris Salcedo's work "Shibboleth" starts as a hairline crack and widens to about a foot across. It cost about 300,000 pounds and took more than six months to complete. Salcedo, 49, refused to say how she managed seemingly to crack open a concrete floor but said it involved delicate and intricate sculpting. Asked how deep the fissure goes, she replied: "It's bottomless. It's as deep as humanity."
FOOTNOTE: King fissure.
The latest installation in the Tate Modern gallery's massive Turbine Hall is a 550-foot crack in the floor. Colombian artist Doris Salcedo's work "Shibboleth" starts as a hairline crack and widens to about a foot across. It cost about 300,000 pounds and took more than six months to complete. Salcedo, 49, refused to say how she managed seemingly to crack open a concrete floor but said it involved delicate and intricate sculpting. Asked how deep the fissure goes, she replied: "It's bottomless. It's as deep as humanity."
FOOTNOTE: King fissure.
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