I left sound check and
started looking through the galleries, and realized a four - sided room by Sol LeWitt feels like walking into a jazz hall or music festival around the world — all directions, open sides.»
Not exact matches
The pieces
look great in the central
gallery,
starting at the southern end with violet and blue, seeing their way
through to bronze and yellow hues and ending toward the north with green and the sky blue reference to Monet in Untitled (Study of a Figure Outdoors: Woman with a Parasol, Facing Left, French Mask) 2013.
I had no way of knowing if the
gallery spaces that I was familiarizing myself with
looked the same as when Smithson visited them as a child and then as an adult, so I
started working my way
through the photographic archives at the museum.
You
start in the relative sanity of the mirrored dining room and then squeeze
through a series of chambers stuffed with prints and relics, before emerging into the domed, top - lit atrium with its
gallery studded with classical statues
looking down into the stone coffin of the pharaoh Seti I. Below are the monk's parlour and the crypt.