If we want to nurture behaviour that could prevent further financial crises and even save the planet, maybe we need more contemplation spaces, not fewer?
In each office, these bay windows have a seat and shelving and are intended as "contemplation spaces".
The inaugural show is "Samadhi: The Contemplation of Space," about the relationship between Eastern philosophy and contemporary art.
The adjacent Hall of Reflection offers more space for contemplation.
To read Penny on art is to enter into a profound contemplation of pictorial space – and also into the complex relationship between what is depicted and how this is done.
Dr. Schwartz, the show's co-curator, called these works "massive, powerful contemplations of sculptural space".
There is a difference between mere noise control and genuine silence, and Prochnik makes an eloquent case for the latter, whether in the form of personal contemplation or communal spaces of tranquillity.
With The Weather Café, Shearing, who has been making multimedia artworks for the past 10 years, wanted to create a space of contemplation and reflection.
We caught up with Yang last October in New York (his first time in the US), where he discussed the rippling work as a "religious tool"—red is a color widely associated with religion in Korea and the importance of its exhibition in an urban environment, as it provides space for contemplation and reflection amidst the chaos and noise of city life.
Their outdoor structures, each says, are spaces for contemplation, meant to provoke thoughts about ideal spaces rather than, say, frontier living.
