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How Venice and New Media Art Are Making the White Cube Increasingly Obsolete

A recent run of ambitious site-specific projects demonstrates aptly why exhibitions must be conceived in dialogue with architecture, history and the bodies moving through them.

How Venice and New Media Art Are Making the White Cube Increasingly Obsolete

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A recent run of ambitious site-specific projects demonstrates aptly why exhibitions must be conceived in dialogue with architecture, history and the bodies moving through them.

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