Primary Season at the Modern
By Megan • Mar 4th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Karen Rosenburg reports for The New York Times:
“In the film “Pleasantville” (1998) the staid world of a black-and-white 1950s town is upended by the introduction of color. Something similar is happening at the Museum of Modern Art.
In the upper section of the lobby, a floor created by the artist Jim Lambie surrounds Rodin’s sculpture of Balzac with concentric strips of brightly hued tape. Up on the sixth floor, a painted-aluminum construction by Donald Judd gives a lift to the gray towers visible through the skylight. Cheerful striped vests, designed by Daniel Buren, peek out from the regulation charcoal jackets of the museum guards.
These and other interventions are part of “Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today,” which opened at the museum on Sunday. Organized by Ann Temkin, a curator in the museum’s department of painting and sculpture, “Color Chart” looks at contemporary artists for whom color functions as a ready-made — something to be bought or appropriated, rather than mixed on a palette. As Frank Stella famously quipped, “I tried to keep the paint as good as it was in the can.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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