Join us as we celebrate the opening of Marketplaces: From Open Air to Online. Participating artists Chad Erpelding and Mark R. Smith will speak about their artwork at 6pm. The last twenty-five years have seen a transformation in the way Americans buy and sell goods and services. Recent shifts toward online shopping and big box stores, but also the resurgence of farmers markets, are part of our continually evolving relationship to the idea of the marketplace—a commercial space that has taken myriad forms over human history. How do we buy and sell not just goods, but pieces of the companies that provides those goods?
This BIG IDEA considers the idea of the marketplace in the 21stcentury. How has our exchange of goods and services changed? What remains the same? How do our choices as consumers shape our society?
Exhibition on view Aug 30–Nov 8, 2019.