This are Coptic times!

This is a post from my current IT2 journal. You may recall me mentioning the Rothko Chapel in class today and want to know more. If you don't, oh well. It's not my job to force anyone to become interested in life and ideas, only to help those who are even marginally interested at little more interested.

Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria

Click the photo below to see images
of the famous churches of Lalibel, Ethiopia,
which are seamlessly hewn out of solid bedrock.
Yeah, cool and all.  But what's up with them?





In keeping with the topic above, and also
with reference back to Leo Steinberg's
discussion of the austerity of contemporary art,
have a listen to this piece by the important
20th-century composer Morton Feldman, a member
of the famous New York School.




Morton Feldman
(1926-1987)
"Coptic Light" (1986)

For those who care, here is another
piece by Feldman, this one commissioned
for the opening of the Rothko Chapel,
in Dallas, Texas.





"Rothko Chapel (4)" (1971)



Bad Brains
"Coptic Times"