For the last 20 years, RxArt has been adorning children’s hospital rooms with designs aimed to ease each patient’s hospital stay. Since its inception, the non-profit has worked with over 60 artists across 40 different hospitals in the US. Photograph: Michael Tropea“I started asking artists, curators, critics and collectors: do you think I could put museum quality art in hospitals, not charge the hospital but still pay the artists?” she recalls. Hospital art work by Takashi Murakami. “There are some artists that work on a really big scale and you don’t want to give them a tiny little wall.

Source: The Guardian March 03, 2021 06:30 UTC