In 1928, a number of American period rooms were designed along with a new decorative arts wing. (visual-arts-cork.com)
The talk will focus on the recent exhibition Period Rooms at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, where the historical rooms are engaged in a hallucinatory argument with the «White Cube.» (swissinstitute.net)
Significantly, the exhibition does not present the viewer with a series of period rooms; instead, visitors are invited to use or inhabit examples of relatively unique domestic furniture while they look at the art on display, an interactive opportunity virtually unheard of in a museum setting. (bard.edu)