Art is often inaccessible. Whether because of mind-boggling prices or the indecipherable lingo of the upper-echelon art world, museums and artists turn off many people for being beyond their reach.
One of the most important artworks at Pomona College is “Dividing the Light,” an art installation by James Turrell, opened in 2007 and tucked in between Edmunds Hall and Lincoln Hall. This piece can at first present itself as either the most potent example of artworld incoherence, or as maybe not even art at all.
Boiled down to its essence, “Dividing the Light” is just a courtyard with a fountain surrounded by benches, framed by an open ceiling. Realistically, it is nothing more than another courtyard with a fountain, which there’s a dire surplus of in Claremont.