The images are important, he explains, but color is preeminent. He brings up songwriting as an example. What I have learned from my experience with musicians has been about the hierarchy of the components of a pop song or a rock song. They use the rhythm section, the percussive beat, they have the atmospheric fill, say the rhythm guitar or the keyboard, and they punctuate the mix with a lead fill, from a guitar or keyboard. But it seems like the preeminent thing in rock 'n' roll and popular music is the human voice.
Titles are almost as important as color.
Titles create parameters, but also give you enough room for intellectual maneuvering, he says, paraphrasing Binstock. Titles on paintings are as important as what someone's name will be. Some people have names that you just think are perfect for them. You sort of become that person. When Binstock and Goldberg were organizing the exhibition, they went to the Cy Twombly room at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for ideas about how to install the show.