This is Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk, which stands in Red Square at UW. Four versions of it exist, one in Houston. Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones today provides a reminder of the obelisk's ...

David Diao uses Barnett Newman as a sounding board to explore his own fascination with the artist and the contradictory legacies of modernism. David Diao, "BN: The Paintings in Scale (Blue)" (1991 ...