The installation, "Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry," included five human-scale polygons known as Platonic solids; a massive spiral lifting from the wall; and a selection of drawings, models and other documentation of past projects.
The space is anchored by a massive spiral staircase that wends its way through the various selling floors from Armani Jeans, on the basement level, to cosmetics on the first and culminating with the designer's secondary label, Emporio Armani, and collection lines one floor up.
Institutional projects included the Musashino Art University Museum & Library (2010) in Tokyo, a library that wrapped public spaces in massive spiraling walls of bookshelves.
It may have come from two vast black holes, one 29 times more massive than the sun, the other 36 times more massive, spiralling around each other and finally crashing together to form a new black hole 62 times the mass of the sun.
If a balanced budget amendment were to pass, the government would not be able to do this: it will have tied its hands completely, and massive spiraling economic contractions may ensue.
"Investors have seen the collapse of both oil and corn this year and many people think that costs are in a massive deflationary spiral, painting everything with a broad brush, I don't necessarily think that is correct," says Heather Jones.
Leading us through the massive metal spirals and gracefully curved rectangles that seem to defy gravity, he explains the spatial philosophy behind each mind-boggling piece ("We start with the void"), but all I could think was how the Lilliputians must have felt when confronted by one of Gulliver's discarded apple peels.
The increasing frequency, or chirp, jibes with two massive bodies spiraling into each other.
The LIGO interferometers searched for a sudden burst of waves caused by the collapse of a dying star, for example, as well as for the increasingly high-frequency chirp of two massive stars spiraling into each other.
If you follow physics, you have likely heard the rumor by now: Physicists working with a pair of gigantic detectors have finally discovered gravitational waves ripples in space and time set off when, say, two massive neutron stars spiral into each other and have only to announce it.
+ Robert Smithson's massive land artwork, Spiral Jetty, was just chosen as Utah's state work of art.
