March 21, 2007

• ART WARS continued:

  Art Appreciation
  
  A rectangle in memory of
  Harvard mathematician
  George Mackey:

  The five Log24 entries ending at
  7:00 PM on March 14, 2006,
  the last day of Mackey's life:

  A Circle of Quiet Christ at the Lapin Agile Burning Bright Fearful Symmetry Frame

  
  A rectangle in memory of
  artist Mark Rothko:

  
  Sotheby's

   
  
  Rothko Painting
  Is Up for Auction

   By CAROL VOGEL of
  THE NEW YORK TIMES,
  March 21, 5:35 PM ET

  "David Rockefeller plans to sell
  a seminal painting
  by Mark Rothko
  for what Sotheby's hopes will be
  more than $40 million.
  Above,
  a detail from the painting."

  From the story:

  "Mr. Rockefeller has owned the
  painting since 1960, when he
  bought it for less than $10,000....
  He said that in November, during a
  periodic appraisal of his art
  collection,
  he noticed to his surprise that of all
  his paintings, the
  Rothko had
  appreciated in value the most.
  'That got me thinking,' he
  said."

  Art appreciation:

  When Crayolas worked, I dreamed an angel, a bar of light, your messenger, beckoning from a wallpaper corner, blushing in the porcelain gas glow. When Crayolas worked and chariots swung low, and America was beautiful and time was slow. Then all that died in life's longer year. Autumn came, colors turned sere. Brittle Crayolas crumbled when touched. The friends of life were cold and hushed. Still you were there, shining and warm behind snow clouds, safe from our harm. The seed I am again burst out, drank your heat, suckled your light in another fair spring to live again on billowing oceans of bottomless green. -- Excerpt from C. K. Latham's    When Crayolas Worked,    from Shiva Dancing:    The Rothko Chapel Songs,    1972-1997

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