{"id":12880,"date":"2026-01-23T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12880"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:18:49","slug":"dan-flavin-grids-at-david-zwirner-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/23\/dan-flavin-grids-at-david-zwirner-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Flavin, &#8216;Grids&#8217; at David Zwirner Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perfectly timed to contrast New York\u2019s drab winter landscape, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidzwirner.com\/exhibitions\/2026\/dan-flavin-grids\">David Zwirner Gallery<\/a>\u2019s show of iconic light artist Dan Flavin\u2019s fluorescent \u2018Grids\u2019 series offers a hugely enjoyable immersion in color.\u00a0 Installed in the gallery as they were in Leo Castelli\u2019s space in 1987, the show starts with three grids on loan from the Guggenheim, <a href=\"https:\/\/artmuseum.princeton.edu\/art\/collections\/objects\/36499\">Princeton University Art Museum<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/artwork\/2012.204\/\">San Francisco Museum of Modern Art<\/a> placed end to end across a corner.\u00a0 Casting and blending their colors, this work from 1977 and the show&#8217;s other pieces transform the space of the gallery, engaging with architecture by bathing it in light. (On view in Chelsea through Feb 21<sup>st<\/sup>.)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 4769px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/2594ca27-74ef-2431-16e7-7544554b024b.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand in front of a sculpture made of a grid of colorful fluorescent tubes.\" width=\"4769\" height=\"4431\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Flavin, untitled (for you, Leo, in long respect and affection) 2, blue, yellow, pink and green fluorescent light, 8 ft square across a corner, edition 3 of 3, 1977.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfectly timed to contrast New York\u2019s drab winter landscape, David Zwirner Gallery\u2019s show of iconic light artist Dan Flavin\u2019s fluorescent \u2018Grids\u2019 series offers a hugely enjoyable immersion in color.\u00a0 Installed in the gallery as they were in Leo Castelli\u2019s space in 1987, the show starts with three grids on loan from the Guggenheim, Princeton University &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/23\/dan-flavin-grids-at-david-zwirner-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dan Flavin, &#8216;Grids&#8217; at David Zwirner Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[913,100,7568,11622,141,162,5175,10311,628,11619,11621,10,11620],"class_list":["post-12880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-dan-flavin","tag-david-zwirner","tag-fluorescent","tag-grids","tag-guggenheim","tag-installation-art","tag-leo-castelli","tag-light-art","tag-minimalism","tag-panza-collection","tag-princeton-art-museum","tag-sculpture","tag-sfmoma"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3lK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12882,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12880\/revisions\/12882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}