Each have a prolific multi-decade artistic career deserving of further scholarship, but a palpable coincidence further connects these three gures: Betty Parsons was the founder of the eponymous gallery which launched the careers of the likes of Pollock, Rothko and Newman; Arakawa and his wife co-founded the Reversible Destiny Foundation, seeking a new model for
architectural practices by borrowing from disciplines including experimental biology, quantum physics, and medicine; Lohaus co-founded the Wide White Space gallery (
WWS) in Antwerp in 1966, which exhibited artists such as Beuys, Broodthaers, Christo and many others.