Angel Fultz

Review of The Menil Collection

**Note, this review is about the Dan Flavin Instal...

**Note, this review is about the Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall.

This is something you'll drive by every day and never realize it's there. The building is inconspicuous with tinted windows and a teeny tiny sign. However, once you discover it and make it inside, it's seemingly, the largest, most enrapturing thing you've ever experienced. My initial thoughts when hearing about the Flavin Installation was how great can a bunch of fluorescent tubes really be? I was wrong. When I entered Richmond Hall, I was mesmerized by the enormous room that seemed to wrap around me with brightly colored lights that almost guided my every step through the great hall. Tube after tube of color placed just perfectly in a huge white room. It doesn't take very long to walk through the dancing lights from the entrance to the back, and there's more. In a back room, are four small installations of white fluorescent tubes. These didn't capture my attention as well, but worth a look nonetheless.

The best part....it's free!