Check out Richard McCoy's profile on the IMA's blog.

A three-story fluorescent light installation by Robert Irwin entitled Light and Space III was specifically designed for the Museum's main 60-foot atrium Pulliam Great Hall. Unveiled as a commission in honor of the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s 125th anniversary this October, the work is the IMA's newest and largest addition to its fast-growing contemporary art program.

Check out Tyler Green's blog post on Robert Irwin's Light and Space III.

Robert Irwin has been one of the pivotal artists in American Art for more than 46 years both as a practitioner, a theoretician, and a teacher. Irwin began his career as an abstract expressionist; however, by the late 1960s he had moved away from painting to become one of the creators of the art of light and space, using ephemeral materials such as scrim, lighting and orientation to alter and heighten the viewers' perception of the space in which they encountered his work.

Mark di Suvero (born as Marco Polo di Suvero) is an American abstract expressionist sculptor born in Shanghai, China in 1933 to Italian expatriates. He came to San Francisco, California in 1941 with his father. From 1953 to 1957, he attended the University of California, Berkeley to study fine arts and where he ultimately earned a degree in Philosophy. He later moved to New York City where he was surrounded by an explosion of Abstract Expressionism. While working in construction, he was critically injured in a freight elevator accident and focused all his attention on sculpture.

Richard Serra (born November 2, 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement.

NYC habor early evening

Just as the title says. You could see for miles here.

The Pulliam Great Hall doubles as the entrance to the Museum’s European and American art galleries and as a delightful venue for your event. Extending from Sol Lewitt's Wall Drawing No. 652 into the galleries themselves, this beautifully lit hall provides a unique experience that incorporates elements of the Museum’s collection itself. Vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, walkways that overlook the great hall, and easy access to all galleries make this site an exceptional experience for you and your guests.

Check out another of Robert's installations called Light and Space.

Richard Serra, Sculptor / Artist

Nathan Ames, a patent solicitor from Saugus, Massachusetts, is credited with patenting the first "escalator" in 1859, despite the fact that no working model of his design was ever built. His invention, the "revolving stairs," is largely speculative and the patent specifications indicate that he had no preference for materials or potential use (he noted that steps could be upholstered or made of wood, and suggested that the units might benefit the infirm within a household use), though the mechanization was suggested to run either by manual or hydraulic power.[13]

The term scrim has two separate meanings in terms of fabric. In each case, it refers to woven material, one a finely woven lightweight fabric widely used in theatre, the other a heavy, coarse woven material used for reinforcement in both building and canvasmaking.

Check out a blog post about a video made in the Indianapolis Museum of Art's Oval Entry.

Four new pavilions have been added to the original building since 1970, and the most recent expansion added 171,800 square feet (15,960 m2) to the museum.

Light and Space III transforms the experience of entering the Museum's galleries with a 60x60-foot screen stretching across three adjacent planes by the main escalators.

Irwin has been one of the most influential artists working in the US over the past five decades. A pioneer of the ‘Light and Space’ movement of the 1960s, Irwin’s work focuses on perceptual phenomena, such as light, volume and scale, with installations that are conditioned by the site in which they take place.

Until Newton's work became accepted, most scientists believed that white was the fundamental color of light; and that other colors were formed only by adding something to light. Newton demonstrated this was not true by passing white light through a prism, then through another prism. If the colors were added by the prism, the second prism should have added further colors to the single-colored beam.

Sylvania traces its history back to 1901, when company founder Frank Poor became a partner in a small light bulb refurbishing company in Middleton, Massachusetts. Poor relocated the business to Danvers, Massachusetts. and called it the Bay State Lamp Company. The company was renamed Sylvania Electric Products in 1942.

Borat visits Amsterdam (english with dutch subtitles)

Lyon, France is the second largest city in France. Can you guess the first? It rhymes with Heiress.

From the exhibition Sculpture in Motion at the Atlanta Botanical Garden on view through October 2008 and curated by Brigitte Micmacker from Sculpturesite Gallery. Curator's commentary: "The George Rickey work in the Sculpture in Motion exhibition, Two Lines Oblique, Atlanta, 1969, on loan from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, is a classic example of the monumental works composed of blades that became Rickey's best known legacy.

2008 - an August morning walk through The Getty Center Museum garden.

The Central Garden, created by renowned artist Robert Irwin, lies at the heart of the Getty Center. The 134,000-square-foot design features a natural ravine and tree-lined walkway that leads the visitor through an extraordinary experience of sights, sounds, and scents.

The placement of a light source to one side of the painting at a low angle to the surface, so that the light glances across the painting. This examination reveals surface distortions, such as raised paint or undulations in the canvas.

Here you will find pictures, mostly of my palm trees, cycads, bromeliads and other tropical plants, but also I will include related galleries of interest to palm tree enthusiasts.

In general, Magnolia is a genus which has attracted a lot of horticultural interest. Hybridisation has been immensely successful in combining the best aspects of different species to give plants which flower at an earlier age than the species themselves, as well as having more impressive flowers. One of the most popular garden magnolias is a hybrid, M. x soulangeana (Saucer magnolia; hybrid M. liliiflora x M. denudata).

Magnolia is also a great movie directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Check out the opening scene.

Check out images from the La Brea Tar Pits.

Established in 1911 by presidential proclamation, Devils Postpile National Monument protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation, the 101-foot high Rainbow Falls, and pristine mountain scenery. The formation is a rare sight in the geologic world and ranks as one of the world’s finest examples of columnar basalt. Its columns tower 60 feet high and display an unusual symmetry.

Video of the Devils Post Piles near Yosemite national park.

Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.

As with Jackson Pollock and other Abstract Expressionists, he was labeled an "action painter" because of his seemingly spontaneous and intense style, focusing less, or not at all, on figures or imagery, but on the actual brush strokes and use of canvas. For most of Kline's [mature and representative] work, however, as the phrase goes, "spontaneity is practiced". He would prepare many draft sketches – notably, commonly on refuse telephone book pages – before going to make his "spontaneous" work.

Initially, the English cottage garden was constructed for its utilitarianism. As much space as possible was utilised for growing flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables. Cottage gardens three or four hundred years ago would have been very unattractive, used for the growing of crops and the raising of poultry or pigs, for example.

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced since World War II.

Recently treated at The Center, a Franz Kline masterpiece; a white field with broad, black, very expressive brush strokes.

The 2008 Russell Lecturer was renowned and influential artist Robert Irwin. This program was presented in conjunction with the MCASD exhibition 'Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries,' a survey spanning over five decades of the artist's work. The artist has lectured and participated in symposia at over 200 universities and art institutes, where he placed an emphasis on spending time with students.

A collaboration between Frank Gehry, Jack Brogan and Robert Irwin results in The Easy Edges Furniture collection. Each of the pieces, from a table and chair to bar stool, are bold, well designed and, at first glance, seem sturdy enough to sit on.

The pristine panels are lacquered to a mirror finish in vivid primary hues. (Jack Brogan, who has been solving technical problems for Irwin’s art since the 1960s, fabricated them.)

by Philip Scott Johnson 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma Nominated as Most Creative Video 2007 YouTube Awards For a complete list of artists and paintings visit http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm

Frank Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.