The unseen art: misconceptions of modern art

Brian Xu and Annie Zhang

March 13, 2019

Filed under From the magazine, OPINION

blue canvas with a white stripe running down its middle sold for $48.3 million. A solid green portrait of an inverted trapezoid sold for $1.6 million. An empty frame for a “non-visible” piece of art sold for $10,000. But is there any meaning behind this white stripe on a blue canvas? Is t...