Come for the Art, Stay for the Chickens

摘要

SPARE A THOUGHT FOR THE DEARLY DEPARTED white-cube art gallery. While the concept may be embedded in the collective imagination, the art world has been over it since at least 1993, when Jay Jopling named his London gallery White Cube—the kind of deeply ironic gesture at which the British excelled in the '90s. (One of Jopling's artists, Damien Hirst, opened a Notting Hill restaurant that same decade called Pharmacy.)