Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space/White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes

In a moment when urban spaces are being converted into art venues at a fever pitch and arts industries are more and more often leaving their conventional architectures for the streets and new festival parks, it seems possible to argue that the city-the broader built environment that the word signals, organizing multiple sites-is today best understood as a spectatorial architecture, a paradigm for cultural experience that is as important (and as determined) as the white cube of the gallery or the black box of the theater were in their heyday.