In case you missed this terrific NYTimes article on Ellsworth Kelly, here’s a snippet:

“While many other artists of his generation were appropriating images of American flags or movie stars or newspaper clippings, Mr. Kelly was relentlessly immersed in abstraction: creating color spectrums and panel paintings with nothing but a giant curve or rectangle, or making drawings depicting the simple outline of a leaf.”

Read more: Ellsworth Kelly, Explorer of Shape, Line and Color - NYTimes.com

The Woodmans are choosy about sites for their daughter’s work, and they have been holding out for years for the ideal place to burnish her legacy. Recently they got what they had been hoping for.

Read more: Francesca Woodman Retrospective - NYTimes.com

“A challenge museums have now is how much are they about making social spaces,” Craig Dykers, the principal architect at Snohetta, said. “Is it a building filled with art with some people in it, or a building filled with people with some art in it? There needs to be enough social space to make people feel comfortable in what can be an austere environment, the white box. You shouldn’t feel like you need to be quiet in the public spaces.”

Read more: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Expansion Aims for Friendly - NYTimes.com