Arakawa, Whose Work Battled Aging, Death, Dies At 73

Conceptual artist and designer Arakawa and his wife, Madeline Gins, “explored their philosophy, which they called Reversible Destiny, in poems, books, paintings and, when they found clients, buildings. … All of it was meant, the couple explained, to lead its users into a perpetually ‘tentative’ relationship with their surroundings, and thereby keep them young.”