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An inside look of Dan Flavin Installation exhibit in Houston on April 1, 2018. (Menil Collection, KPRC) HOUSTON – The winter season is here, but this museum is lighting things up in Houston.
WATER MILL, N.Y. — Light is a thing of ungraspable nature, sometimes a particle, sometimes a wave. And for artists of the 1960s, light became a third thing: a material. Dan Flavin began making ...
Contemporary artists like Bruce Nauman and Dan Flavin first worked in neon tubing over forty years ago. From clever phrases and abstract shapes to simple, yet powerful, lines, we present to you 25 ...
Much like the way fluorescent lights gained recognition as contemporary art through the works of Dan Flavin, neon deserves a place not only in design history, but also as part of humanity’s cultural ...
Art & Exhibitions 5 Must-See Shows During Art Basel Highlights include Dan Flavin's "Dedications in Light" and a survey of Argentinian artist Mika Rottenberg.
Dan Flavin, untitled (to Ward Jackson, an old friend and colleague who, during the Fall of 1957 when I finally returned to New York from Washington and joined him to work together in this museum ...
Flavin’s work is abstract, of course, although some have speculated on its figurative allusions. As an object the 8-foot bulb, which begins at the junction of the wall and the floor, rises to ...
The Dan Flavin Art Institute is a unique museum on Corwith Avenue in Bridgehampton, just steps away from Main Street. Dan Flavin (1933-1996) created art with light, objects he once referred to as ...