I agree that the blinding white has got to go. It also gives me a headache browsing the areas with the flat white background, and for an art site to feature such a harsh contrast to the viewable content is ridiculous in my opinion. With no options to change the default colors on all areas of the site via CSS, it only ensures the site will not have a global stylization for those who favor customization. And let's face it, who does favor hard coding anything which ultimately dulls one's perception. It doesn't make much sense to only offer options for two sections of the site and leave the rest at default...I'm just not seeing the logic in this decision whatsoever.