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Today's New York Times mentions Los Angeles artist Ray Charles.

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Anonymous said…
Too bad the article should didn't bother to mention that LACMA's new building will have lots of windows. Lots and lots of them.
Anonymous said…
It is not a structure for man without windows. The first doors were windows, thus making space inhabitable. The second windows made space for light or looking. With the second window, space takes on a religious function. Lots and lots of windows is not a bad thing.
Glenstone in Maryland has a massive cache of his work.
I saw his full-size aluminum-plated "Tractor" of 2005 at his show at the Met. I was floored.

https://www.glenstone.org/artist/charles-ray/

See also, he made this photograph of himself while in art school:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/267271
Anonymous said…
> Lots and lots of windows
> is not a bad thing.

It's sort of is when both the budget is bloated and the modus operandi is increasingly - to quote the LA Times - "...just newer and now-er. It might even be said to be worse, given the cramped narrowness today driving the entire institution. LACMA might be a de facto museum of contemporary art, but frankly it's not a very good one."