Anyone who's been to an auto show or car dealership knows exactly how most car manufacturers show off their latest model. A car might be displayed on a raised platform, there might be a spotlight, or perhaps a stand w...

THE PAPER SCULPTURE SHOW

2004.2.2　 Text: Matt Smith

How often does a catalog overshadow the actual exhibition? In this case, it's a close call which is better. The Paper Sculpture Show, which originated at the Sculpture Center in New York, invites visitors to get invol...

GARRY WINOGRAND “1964”

2003.9.1　 Text: Matt Smith

Garry Winogrand, White Sands National Monument, 1964 © The Estate of Garry Winogrand In 1964, photographer Garry Winogrand documented, with some 185 photographs, a United States at a moment in time. Winogrand's p...

JOELLE TUERLINCKX “CHICAGO STUDIES: LES ETANTS DONNES”

2003.6.30　 Text: Matt Smith

In the 60s and 70s, the movement known as Conceptualism introduced an art which removed as much as possible the intermediary object from its underlying ideas. This art of ideas could appear in written form, diagrams, ...

PETER DOIG EXHIBITION

2003.4.30　 Text: Matt Smith

It was Francesco Bonami (currently a senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago) who, some ten years ago now, described painting as a nutritional building block for a healthy visual diet. Whether you ...

ARCHIGRAM: EXPERIMENTAL ARCHITECTURE 1961-1974

2002.2.10　 Text: Matt Smith

Founded in 1961 by architect Peter Cook, the experimental British architecture magazine and collective Archigram combined the distinctive visual style of the ‘60s with an interest in imaginative, playful and env...