Artist Ellsworth Kelly calls his flat blocks of color, hung in the rotunda at the Moakley courthouse, "wall sculptures."
(Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff)
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Artist Ellsworth Kelly calls his flat blocks of color, hung in the rotunda at the Moakley courthouse, "wall sculptures."
(Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff)
To the untutored eye, they are simply huge rectangular panels - reds, yellows, blues, greens - that have hung like oversized Post-it Notes on the walls of the cavernous federal courthouse since it opened a decade ago. Hundreds of people pass them daily; few seem to notice. (Full article: 811 words)
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