What do artists Jasper Johns and Antony Gormley have in common? Not nationality – Johns was born in Georgia, grew up in South Carolina, and moved to New York City as fast as he could; Gormley was born in London and educated first at Cambridge then in travels throughout India and Sri Lanka. Not artistic […]
Hard to believe it’s been over a month since we took a Phillips trip to Japan as part of our travel program. Over the course of a week and a half, we traveled to Tokyo, Kyoto, Kurashiki, Naoshima, and Takamatsu. Here’s a few snapshots of the people, places, and studios we visited.
Two years before his Intersections project Sk(in) at the Phillips, A. Balasubramaniam (or Bala, to us) gave a TED Talk on substance and absence, qualities his project here explored as well. A year later, Antony Gormley’s Phillips exhibition Drawing Space coincided with another intersection with TED. Gormley’s Ted Talk about sculpted space, within and without, […]
