Zurich

Richard Diebenkorn, the only child of a West Coast family, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1922. Two years later his father, Richard Clifford Diebenkorn Sr.—a sales executive with Dohrmann & Co., a prominent restaurant and hotel supply company—was reassigned to the firm’s main office in San Francisco, where they had lived prior to Diebenkorn’s birth and had always...

In its spatial and temporal senses, the prefix meta signifies “beyond”: situated after, past, above, underneath, or even behind something else. Applied to a concept or category, meta usually identifies a set of issues, operations, or objects that supersede or transcend whatever else corresponds to the type. The merely “beyond” becomes the...