The Museum recently announced an exhibition by British designer and artist Michael Cross to open in October. This will be Cross's first American exhibition and I have to say I'm quite intrigued. According to the press release, "visitors...will enter a space unlike any other in the Museum."
Specifically, the space in question is the contemporary Project Space in the Bloch Building. So far, it has contained three exhibitions of works by contemporary artists: Kiki Smith's Constellation; Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora; and currently, Siah Armajani: Dialogue with Democracy.
The new exhibition, Resting Places, Living Things: Designs by Michael Cross, will be the first time the Project Space will be used to exhibit contemporary decorative arts.
Trained as a product designer, all of Cross’ experimental designs can be industrially manufactured and then used in everyday situations. He uses the gallery as a design laboratory, an environment where experimental forms of objects can be nurtured into life and then studied for characteristics that can be transplanted into the wider world.
According to Mr. Cross, the exhibition can be summed up under one meta-message: "Everything can be seen differently - imagine, dream, play." I'm looking forward to it.