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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Assembly Required

Installation view of Assembly Required.

Mar 4 – July 31, 2022
3716 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108, United States

The latest exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation demands that viewers not only touch the art, but create it. Testing the relationship between artist and audience, this immersive group show often requires exhibition attendees to build and shape the works. Each of the nine participants have been given their own gallery. In Yoko Ono’s, for instance, viewers are asked to step and jump on her canvases. Siah Armajani’s sculptures are lined with books that people are encouraged to read and mark up. In Lygia Pape’s space one can play with pop-up books that the artist designed in the late 1950s and early 60s. As Armajani puts it, “the artist and his reason for being is no longer as a creator for contemplation but a motivator of creation.” —Jensen Davis

Photo: Alise O’Brien/© Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Alise O’Brien