Monday, September 1, 2014

East Building, National Gallery of Art, DC


There's nothing like a circle, faintly marked out in pencil, of familiar slabs of British rock. Contemporary art began for me with this Richard Long at the ArnolfiniBristol, 1990.

Outdoors the dramatic geometry of architect I. M. Pei's great "H"-shaped façade and water feature. A late 1970s gem that is faced inside and out with lavender-pink marble from the same quarry in Tennessee, as the original West Building. 

Spot the family...