Storefront for Art and Architecture - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Storefront for Art and Architecture. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Public Space in a Private Time: Building Storefront for Art and Architecture” Exhibition
The establishment of certain spaces in the city as “public” is a reminder, a warning, that the rest of the city isn’t public. — Vito Acconci, 1990 On the occasion of the...More »
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Alvaro Urbano “The Great Ruins of Saturn”
#greatruinsofsaturn @alvaro_urbano @storefrontnyc Storefront for Art and Architecture opens The Great Ruins of Saturn, an exhibition by artist Alvaro Urbano. The show presents a newly commissioned...More »
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“Something Broke: 2011-Windows-2021” Exhibition
Storefront for Art and Architecture opened Something Broke: 2011-Windows-2021, an exhibition by Buenos Aires-based artist Mariela Scafati that presents an installation of hand-painted posters lettered...More »
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Rayyane Tabet “Arabesque”
Process image from “Collages” by Rayyane Tabet. Created for “Arabesque,” organized by Storefront for Art and Architecture, 2020. Exhibition graphic design by Morcos Key. In 2020, an improbable meeting...More »
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Carla Juaçaba and Marcelo Cidade “Ministry for All”
Buildings are often positioned as beacons of progress and symbols of growth and power. Their foundations, dug solidly into the earth, aim to give shape to new visions for future social ideals and to frame...More »
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Brigada Puerta de Tierra “Aquí vive gente: Museum of History and Community of Puerta de Tierra”
Aquí vive gente (people live here). Throughout the neighborhood of Puerta de Tierra in San Juan, Puerto Rico, murals with this refrain brighten the walls and convey to passersby the self-determination...More »
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Theo Deutinger “State of Tyranny”
How do we understand tyranny? Its global presence is felt and heard daily. It permeates news cycles, it defines the plots of television shows, and it has to be explained to our children. Tyranny defines...More »
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“Subculture: Microbial Metrics and the Multi-Species City” Exhibition
Kevin Slavin, Elizabeth Hénaff, and The Living / David Benjamin with Evan Eisman Company #subculture @storefrontnyc @theliving.studio @ehenaff @slavin_fpo What are the...More »
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“Architecture Books - Yet To Be Written” Exhibition
Storefront for Art and Architecture opens Architecture Books - Yet to Be Written. Located at the organization’s gallery space (97 Kenmare Street), the exhibition serves as the anchor program for the New...More »
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“Marching On: The Politics Of Performance” Exhibition
Storefront for Art and Architecture presents Marching On: The Politics of Performance by Bryony Roberts and Mabel O. Wilson, beginning with a performance by the Marching Cobras of NY at 5 pm. Marching...More »
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“Sex and the So-Called City” Exhibition
What are the social, environmental, and political consequences of our urban lifestyles? This year, Sex and the City, New York City’s most influential archisocial manifesto, turns twenty. The series,...More »
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“Souvenirs: New New York Icons” Exhibition
#souvenirs #modelshow #newnewyorkicons @storefrontnyc As a contemporary form of commercialized nostalgia, souvenirs are the ultimate cliche in the representation of a city. Pocket-sized,...More »
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“Temple of Manufacturing” Exhibition
In our current interdependent global economy, the designations “Designed by X,” “Made by X,” “Manufactured by X,” “Made in X,” and “Product of X” are increasingly complex. While their origins are based...More »
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“Control Syntax Rio” Exhibition
Storefront for Art and Architecture, in collaboration with the Het Nieuwe Instituut, presents Control Syntax Rio at Storefront’s gallery space at 97 Kenmare Street. Control Syntax Rio examines Rio de Janeiro’s...More »
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“Paranoia Man in a Rat Fink Room” Exhibition
Storefront for Art and Architecture, in collaboration with the New York Comedy Festival (NYCF), has commissioned Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe to create Paranoia Man in a Rat Fink Room at Storefront’s...More »
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“Letters to the Developer” Exhibition
In 2014, Storefront launched Letters to the Mayor, a project that invited architects to write letters to their city mayors as a way to open up dialogue about the making of cities and public life. This...More »
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“Work in Progress” Exhibition
On Tuesday, September 27th, Storefront for Art and Architecture will close for Work in Progress. A green construction fence will enclose a photographic survey of ongoing construction sites throughout the...More »
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“Sharing Models: Manhattanisms” Exhibition
We are experiencing the emergence of a culture that is marked by a return to, redefinition, and expansion of the notion of the commons. The increasing complexity and interconnectedness of globalization...More »
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Fazal Sheikh “Memory Trace”
Storefront for Art and Architecture presents Memory Trace by Fazal Sheikh. Memory Trace brings a site-specific installation of part of the Israeli Separation Wall to the façade of Storefront’s gallery...More »
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“Closed Worlds” Exhibition
What do outer space capsules, submarines, and office buildings have in common? Each was conceived as a closed system: a self-sustaining physical environment demarcated from its surroundings by a boundary...More »
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“JB1.0: Jamming Bodies” Exhibition
“If one wants to dance on a tightrope, one has to first tension the wire.” Siegfried Ebeling, Space as Membrane (1926) JB1.0: Jamming Bodies is an immersive installation that transforms Storefront’s...More »
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“Measure” Exhibition
To measure, to quantify the physical and intangible dimensions of a place, is to articulate facts in order to construct values. The process of creating standards and guidelines of representation allows...More »
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“Facing East: Chinese Urbanism in Africa”
China’s influence in Africa is growing quickly on many levels. All across the continent, Chinese companies are creating new highways, light rail systems, Special Economic Zones, and mass housing developments....More »
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“The Architects” Exhibition
The Architects cuts transversally through the city of New York, producing a continuous image of the global architecture office today. Moving through several architecture studios - from Fifth Avenue to...More »
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“Blueprint” Exhibition
Curated by Sebastiaan Bremer and Florian Idenburg & Jing Liu of SO – IL “Now, however long a time may pass, according to the eternal laws governing the combinations of this eternal play of repetition,...More »
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“World Wide Storefront: Situation NY” Exhibition
World Wide Storefront is a multi-locus project of ten alternative spaces around the globe and a digital platform designed by Pentagram interwoven with a commissioned installation, Situation NY, designed...More »
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“Letters to the Mayor” Competition
Throughout history, architects have engaged with the structures of economic, political and cultural power in different ways. Over the last two decades, the role of the architect in the political arena...More »
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Sebastian Errazuriz “Tough Love”
Storefront for Art and Architecture presents the opening of Tough Love, a solo exhibition by Sebastian Errazuriz. Tough Love presents 15 objects that address socio-political issues and question public...More »
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“Being (the Critical History Project)” Exhibition
Being launches Storefront’s Critical History Project, a conference, an exhibition, a film, and a book that work together to understand the role of Storefront for Art and Architecture in the construction...More »
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David Molander “Urban Zoom”
Urban Zoom is a solo exhibition by contemporary artist and photographer David Molander. The exhibition presents a series of hyperrealist works that go beyond the surreal and expressionistic to depict contemporary...More »
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“POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions” Exhibition
POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions, investigates what constitutes a position in architecture today and how that might be generated through the architect’s drawing. The exhibition presents 30 original...More »
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“No Shame: Storefront for Sale” Exhibition
Contemporary funding strategies for public spaces of cultural production are increasing and diversifying. Within this condition, cultural institutions, funded primarily through individual or corporate...More »
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"Aircraft Carrier" Exhibition
- Media: Photography - Architecture - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-03-07 - 2013-04-29
Aircraft Carrier surveys the period between two crises of capitalism, 1973 and 2008, to understand the radical change in Israeli architecture. The eventful year of 1973 marks a watershed in the workings...More »
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"The Competitive Hypothesis" Exhibition
The Competitive Hypothesis is an exhibition examining the politics behind the architectural competition. The exhibition, presented in partnership with Think-Space (www.think-space.org), questions the current...More »
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"Past Futures, Present, Futures" Exhibition
Few cities occupy the public imagination like the island of Manhattan. From cinema and literature to architecture and real estate, New York City exists as a palimpsest of layered dreams and schemes, desires...More »
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Gary Hustwit & Jon Pack "The Post-Olympic City"
Some former Olympic sites are retrofitted and used in ways that belie their grand beginnings; turned into prisons, housing, malls, gyms, churches. Others sit unused for decades and become tragic time capsules,...More »
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"Aesthetics/Anesthetics" Exhibition
Aesthetics/Anesthetics is an exhibition of 30 newly commissioned architectural drawings by 30 emerging and established architects and firms at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Each commissioned drawing...More »
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"Archizines" Exhibition
Archizines is an exhibition and a research project to celebrate and promote the resurgence of independent and alternative publishing practices. Making its American debut at Storefront with a bespoke design...More »
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Serkan Ozkaya "DOUBLE"
DOUBLE is a Manifesto Series event marking the arrival of Serkan Ozkaya’s David (inspired by Michelangelo) in New York The event at Storefront will include a live staging of manifestos, on the topic of...More »
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Serkan Özkaya "David (Inspired by Michelangelo)"
Conceptual artist Serkan Ozkaya made David (inspired by Michelangelo), a double-size, golden replica of Michelangelo's David, for the 9th International Istanbul Biennial in 2005. Based on Stanford University...More »
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Lan Tuazon "Ingredients of Reality: the Dismantling of New York City"
Storefront for Art and Architecture presenta Ingredients of Reality: the Dismantling of New York City by Lan Tuazon. The exhibition presents sculptures, drawings and prints that discuss how history, the...More »
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Total Enthusiasm "INSIDE PRE-FAB"
Storefront for Art and Architecture presents Inside Pre-Fab as part of its Total Enthusiasm Series. Total Enthusiasm 02: Inside-Fab will celebrate the history and resurgence of prefabricated domestic interiors...More »
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"007_Urban_Songline" Exhibition
Storefront for Art and Architecture presents 007_Urban_Songline by Allard van Hoorn. The exhibition is the artist's first solo exhibition in New York and will continue his series of works that explore...More »
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"Strategies for Public Occupation" Exhibition
On October 7, 2011, in response to the Occupy Wall Street movement, Storefront launched a Call for Ideas entitled "Strategies for Public Occupation" which invited submissions from architects, artists and...More »
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Stammtisch / Tertulias /Salon "On Architecture and Publishing"
Storefront for Art and Architecture presents "Stammtisch / Tertulias / Salon: On Architecture and Publishing" Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 7 PM at the Storefront Gallery. The salon will address how publishers...More »
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"Pharmacophore: Architectural Placebo" Exhibition
Storefront for Art and Architecture will present "Pharmacophore: Architectural Placebo", the latest in a growing body of Harrison Atelier (HAt) collaborations bridging design with performance. The new...More »
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"The Ginger Island Project" Exhibition
Curated by Liutauras Psibilskis, The Ginger Island Project is a multi-part project featuring a screening, a slide installation, a sound project, a party and an exhibition of re-interpretations and remixes...More »
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"Sacred Spaces in Profane Buildings" Exhibition
Storefront for Art and Architecture presents "Sacred Spaces in Profane Buildings a New York Archive", a project by Matilde Cassani. The project unveils the hidden spaces within New York dedicated to the...More »
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"11 Manifestos+Discussion" Talk
Storefront for Art and Architecture is presents "WHAT IS DESIGN? A Manifesto for the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011". his event has been curated in conjunction with the Gwangju Design Biennale and on behalf...More »
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"Painting Urbanism, Learning from Rio" Exhibition
Painting Urbanism resides in the intersection of land art, supergraphics, graffiti and urban planning. It takes the built environment as a continuous territory beyond archaic dichotomies of public and...More »
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"Interrogation 04 -Writing the City into Being: Essays on Johannesburg 1998–2008" Book Launch
Storefront for Art and Architecture presents the launching of Writing the City into Being: Essays on Johannesburg 1998-2008 with a series of interrogations between the author and different scholars including...More »
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"Critical Futures" Forum
Storefront is pleased to invite you to the third event in a three-part series of debates on the future of architecture criticism organized by Domus that have previously taken place in London and Milan. The...More »
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Daniel Arsham/Snarkitecture "Dig"
"Dig explores the architecture of excavation. Storefront's distinctive gallery space will be filled with a solid volume of EPS architectural foam, engulfing the existing interior in an unyielding flood...More »
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"Eco-Redux: Design Remedies for an Ailing Planet" Lecture
In the history of ideas, discourses get recycled. Concepts emerge as allegedly new, though ideas undergo long journeys of migration from one epistemological field to another. EcoRedux allegorically brings...More »
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"Manifesto 02 - Infrastructural Opportunism" Event
About the Manifesto Series: The Manifesto Series is part of Storefront's programming for the development and exposure of fresh and new ideas in a short, precise and concise manner. The events have the...More »
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"Total Housing 01: Apartments" Exhibition
Storefront is pleased to announce "Total Housing 01: Apartments," an exhibition of the results of the first in a succession of architecture competitions circling around the book Total Housing. Organized...More »
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"Total Enthusiasm 01, Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X - 197X" Party
Storefront presents the first event of the "TOTAL ENTHUSIASM" series with the launch of "CLIP/STAMP/FOLD: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X - 197X" (Actar 2010), 672 dynamic pages edited...More »
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Do Ho Suh "A Perfect Home: The Bridge Project"
Over the past two years Do Ho Suh and his team of researchers, architects, and designers have generated four fantastical bridge designs that propose ways to connect Seoul, South Korea, and New York City....More »
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Bas Princen "Refuge, Five Cities"
Refuge, Princen's most recent project, could be described as a photographic fiction of sorts. Although it is the result of extensive travels and research in five cities of the Middle East and Turkey -...More »
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Bas Princen "Refuge: Five Cities"
Princen’s project originated as research for the IABR Rotterdam and explored the theme of “refuge urbanism.” This exhibition presents a series of works in which Princen observes contemporary urban transformation...More »
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"Landscapes of Quarantine" Exhibition
From Chernobyl's Zone of Exclusion to the artificial quarantine islands of the New York archipelago, and from camps set up to house HIV+ Haitian refugees at Guantánamo Bay to the modified Airstream trailer...More »
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"Living Architectures" Exhibition
Applying their keen eyes to architecture’s everyday use, filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine create intimate portraits of iconic contemporary buildings, giving backstage access to their inner lives...More »
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Marina Ballo Charmet "At Land: Bodyscape & Cityscape"
The work of photographer and artist Marina Ballo Charmet, whose formal training is as a psychoanalyst, is centered on what she describes as "inattentive, unintentional observation, irrational and without...More »
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Dennis Oppenheim "Public Projects" Lecture and Book Launch
Storefront for Art and Architecture presents a lecture and launch celebrating Dennis Oppenheim’s book titled Public Projects, published by Charta Books, 2009. Dennis Oppenheim has exhibited widely since...More »
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"Material Feedback" Panel Discussion and Closing Party
To mark the closing of "Reef," Storefront for Art and Architecture will host a discussion among a group of practitioners whose work focuses on digital design, material logic and innovative fabrication...More »
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Rob Ley and Joshua Stein "Reef"
Reef redefines the role of architectural envelope by capitalizing on emerging material technology to imbue space with behavioral qualities. In this installation at Storefront for Art and Architecture in...More »
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"Gets Under the Skin part 3" Screening
Final instalment of a 3-part series of films and videos on modernist architecture curated by Hajnalka Somogyi. With a conversation between the curator and Tirdad Zolghadr. Works in screening: Caitlin...More »
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"Gets Under the Skin part II" Screening
Modernist architecture has been a strong, recurring theme in contemporary art. Way after its rise and fall, it still seems to bug artists, both as art and as social program: it provokes mixed feelings...More »
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"Work AC: 49 Cities" Exhibition
Throughout history, architects and planners have dreamed of ‘better’ and different cities – more controllable, more defensible, more efficient, more monumental, more organic, taller, denser, sparser or...More »
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"Situation Room" Film Screening
Michelangelo Antonioni's 1972 documentary Chung Kuo is a rare and epic depiction of China as a nation caught on the cusp of massive, far-reaching transformation. When screened at the Venice Film Festival...More »
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Robert Venturi "Lieb House: Change of Address"
A micro-exposition inside EXYZT's Situation Room, documenting Robert Venturi's 1969 Lieb House with drawings, photographs, movies, and interviews to mark its relocation from Barnegat Light, NJ to Glen...More »
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"Situation Room" Exhibition
We will act to defend architecture that is plural, used, complex, diverse, real and alive; architecture that is about action and interaction, formation and deformation, transformation and appropriation. Situation...More »
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"White House Redux" Competition
The mission statement was "What if the White House, the ultimate architectural symbol of political power, were to be designed today?" On occasion of the election of the 44th President of the United States...More »
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"Learning From Hangzhou" Exhibition
The Yangtze River Delta corridor is one of the fastest developing regions in the world. Spanning from Shanghai to Ningbo and encompassing 16 cities with populations larger than 1 million people (including...More »
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"Pop Up Storefront London: CPH Experiments" Exhibition
The BIG CPH Experiment, an exhibition that inaugurated at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York in October 2007, presents a series of recent design projects and large-scale models by the Copenhagen-based...More »
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"(G)host In The (S)hell" Exhibition
Faustino's largescale onsite installation (G)HOST IN THE (S)HELL, designed specifically for Storefront for Art and Architecture, will occupy the entire body of the gallery and engage its iconic façade...More »
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"On Mock-ups, Home Videos and Housekeeping " Exhibition
A video exhibition in 3 parts More »