{"id":57,"date":"2009-10-06T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2009-10-06T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T22:25:00","slug":"the-ryman-rooms-at-diabeacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"The Ryman Rooms at Dia:Beacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/ryman_installation-760936.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 348px; height: 264px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/ryman_installation-760935.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Today and tomorrow will be my last articles for the foreseeable future on Dia:Beacon. Not that I won&#8217;t be writing about it reasonably soon &#8211; oh I will. It&#8217;s just that things do keep moving and I need to respect that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This will come as a big shock to anyone who has read this blog before. <i>The Ryman rooms in my opinion are remarkable.<\/i> The rooms are just amazing &#8211; super active and really quiet all at the same time, in a way very similar to what used to be called ambient music (the Fripp\/Eno variety). They have a quiet power that would not surprise you, or anyone familiar with Ryman&#8217;s work, but the surprises in the paint and especially the sensitivity of the application of the paint was just phenomenal &#8211; almost shocking in it&#8217;s sensitivity.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who think white is just white &#8211; take a look at these rooms. Every (white) painting shows a different depth and tone that is just not an accident. These are not a painted with a bunch of Titanium White to make them &#8220;cohesive&#8221;. They are clearly an expression that has taken it&#8217;s time to reflect and absorb what they are doing among each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today and tomorrow will be my last articles for the foreseeable future on Dia:Beacon. Not that I won&#8217;t be writing about it reasonably soon &#8211; oh I will. It&#8217;s just that things do keep moving and I need to respect that. This will come as a big shock to anyone who has read this blog before. The Ryman rooms in my opinion are remarkable. The rooms are just amazing &#8211; super active and really quiet all at the same time, in a way very similar to what used to be called ambient music (the Fripp\/Eno variety). They have a quiet&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=57\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Ryman Rooms at Dia:Beacon<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[118,119,159,161,163],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}