This gallery has been installed with the truly topical exhibition "Tools: Extending Our Reach," curated by Cara McCarty and Matilda McQuaid, with tools, patents, code, and tunnel borers from all branches of the Smithsonian.
Members of the British group Designers in Residence, which presented the exhibition "Tools for Everyday Life," were typical in their adoration of gleaming brass rivets, which they embedded into lamps, and the gauges and shims used at machine shops, which they turned into building blocks.
Riley has also called her copy – which she has lent to this fascinating little exhibition – a "tool", revealing what her and Seurat have in common: they both practice art as an optical science.
It seems almost unnecessary to introduce Cory Arcangel, the digital wunderkind, artist-musician and inveterate hacker whose exhibition, "Pro Tools," has opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Also appearing in the exhibition are tools and weapons made from gold, silver, electrum, copper and copper alloys.
"In this way, "Carl Van Vechten: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond" works on several levels, as both an art exhibition and a tool for educational exchange.
READING For the current "Tools" exhibition, I read a lot of books about tools.
A record 92,000 people visited the four-day exhibition of materials, tools, appliances and services.
Up on the third floor, Thinc, the exhibition designers for "Tools," spaced things out and made it harder to make temporal or cross-disciplinary leaps.
Bika is a Knight Foundation fellow at the NEW INC, the first museum-led incubator, where she is developing a collaborative digital platform for exhibition design named Tools for Show.
