{"id":1839,"date":"2009-07-24T17:46:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T00:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/kaleidoscopic-folds-from-tara-donovan\/"},"modified":"2009-07-24T17:46:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T00:46:02","slug":"kaleidoscopic-folds-from-tara-donovan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/24\/kaleidoscopic-folds-from-tara-donovan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaleidoscopic Folds from Tara Donovan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/24\/arts\/design\/24sculpture.html\" target=\"_blank\">from the New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/packages\/images\/photo\/2009\/07\/23\/20090724-SCUL\/29096193.JPG\" height=\"300\" width=\"450\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the Lever House Lobby, [an] eye-grabbing sculpture by Tara Donovan. Ms. Donovan&#8217;s untitled piece consists of 2,500 pounds of plastic sheeting loosely folded into a wide box that is glassed in on the front and back and built into a freestanding white wall.<\/p>\n<p>At first you notice the serpentine pattern formed by the edges of the plastic material. Then a remarkable optical effect kicks in. Light pouring through from either side reflects on the shiny surfaces of the plastic folds, producing a shimmering, kaleidoscopic effect. The transformation is magical and more hallucinogenic than anything suggested by Mr. Surls&#8217;s works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; border-color: #505050 !important\" class=\"credit\">Photo: Librado Romero\/The New York Times<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2009\/07\/24\/arts\/20090724-SCUL_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to view full slideshow of <em>OUTSIDE ART<\/em> at the NY Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the New York Times At the Lever House Lobby, [an] eye-grabbing sculpture by Tara Donovan. Ms. Donovan&#8217;s untitled piece consists of 2,500 pounds of plastic sheeting loosely folded into a wide box that is glassed in on the front and back and built into a freestanding white wall. At first you notice the serpentine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}