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Article: On The Drawing Board.(neon lights for Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Venetian-style palazzo; Versace to open Home Collectino boutique in Moscow)
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- January 31, 2003
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THE GARDNER GOES GRAPHIC: It's not every day that a Venetian-style palazzo gets bathed in neon lights, but that's just what Joseph Kosuth, a pioneer in the conceptual art movement, has done to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
In honor of the esteemed institution's centennial, Kosuth has created three installations including a large-scale textual one on the exterior that excerpts tidbits from letters swapped between the museum's namesake, James McNeill Whistler and Bernard Berenson.
"The clusters of light look like lace during the day and stars at night," said Pieranna Cazalchini, the museum's curator of contemporary art. "We wanted to do ...