Revisiting the Glass House
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For a traveling exhibition that kicked off last year at Connecticut’s Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, curators Jessica Hough and Mónica Ramírez-Montagut sought out artistic responses to modern architecture. Utopian, dystopian, abstract, surreal: The paintings, sculptures, collages, and videos on display in the show’s catalog prove that the buildings of the classic modern period, epitomized by Philip Johnson’s Glass House, were inspiring in more contexts than just architecture schools.
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