Well by now you all know I am a color junkie….or you can even call me an expert–regardless, I am into it. But tell me what are the chances that all of these museums are having exhibits on the science of color at the same time?

As noted here already, The Color Chart: Reinventing Color 1950-Today, @ MOMA through May 12, 2008.
Color as Field: American Painting 1950-1975 @ Smithsonians American Art Museum through May 26, 2008 (the first ever full-scale examination of the sources, meaning and impact of the Color Field movement).
Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product, @ Cooper Hewitt Museum through September 1, 2008.
Jasper Johns: Gray @ the Metropolitan Museum in New York through May 4, 2008 examines the use of the color gray by the American artist Jasper Johns (b. 1930) between the mid-1950s and the present.

Coincidence? Or Connected? I say the latter……….all of these curators know each other and spoke at a “Topics to put on at a Museum convention.” Just kidding, but who knows. There are the friends of friends who know each other, or associations(wink)who know someone such as sponsors, and so on. Regardless, we the lookees or guests or vistors are the winners. It’s a literal color cornucopia………love that word especially when it comes to color (and food).

((Top intro image is of a ceramic plate sample that represents the colors the plate came in from Cooper Hewitt’s Multiple Choices: From Sample to Product which examines sample books and other sampling formats as tools for marketing or recording designs and techniques in a wide variety of media. The curators propose that sample books or samples for that matter will no longer be used….another 21st century fatality as a consequence of technology.)

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