Neon rainbows

2006-01-31T00:00:00

Diagonal, by Steven Flavin

Source: Steven Flavin/artists’ rights society

Artist Dan Flavin was working as a guide in the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1961 when he started making sketches of sculptures incorporating light fittings.

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