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Sol LeWitt. Complex Form with Black and White Bands. 1988 | MoMA

“The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, born this day in 1928. Have you seen the colorful Sol LeWitt wall drawing in our film lobby? Be sure to visit it the next time you’re at the museum. 

[Sol LeWitt. Complex Form with Black and White Bands. 1988. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2016 Sol LeWitt / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

64 days in heaven and hell (52) Barges In August, Van Gogh worked on a few motifs that may seem a bit uncharacteristic in his oeuvre. But he didn’t have to go far to find this scene: the quay on the left bank of the Rhône river was just a few steps away from his studio.

Two months later, he sent the painting to his friend Émile Bernard: 

“…  I believe that that one will suit you once you’ve looked at it a little longer”. (Letter 698)

Bernard kept the painting an showed it in 1892 in an exhibition organized in memory of van Gogh who had died two years previously.