How the White Cube Came to Dominate the Art World
You explain that the white cube was initially only a variance of a rich tradition of differently coloured rooms in museums around 1900.
Niklas Maak • The white cube and beyond Museum display
And when does this cleansing process, leading us to the idea of the gallery as ‘white cube’, begin?
*Charlotte Klonk
*The disciplining began at an early stage with the design of reverential entrance halls and exhibition rooms. They were sumptuously decorated, but weren’t intended to distract from viewing the art.
Niklas Maak • The white cube and beyond Museum display
