Stockholm’s subway system is stocked: “Since construction began in 1950, some 250 artists have decorated 94 stations across 68 miles of track.” – Wired
Tag: 04.13.20
When We See Familiar Art Again We Will Have Changed
Peter Schjeldahl: Online “virtual tours” add insult to injury, in my view, as strictly spectacular, amorphous disembodiments of aesthetic experience. Inaccessible, the works conjure in the imagination a significance that we have taken for granted. Purely by existing, they stir associations and precipitate meanings that may resonate in this plague time. Why does the art of what we term the Old Masters have so much more soulful heft than that of most moderns and nearly all of our contemporaries? – The New Yorker