box: Brian O'Doherty and the "white cube"
2007a. With a large retrospective at the Cite de la Musique, Paris acknowledges the importance of American artist Christian Marclay for the future of avant-garde art; the French foreign ministry expresses in its own belief in this future by sending Sophie Calle to represent France at the Venice Biennale; while the Brooklyn Academy of Music commissions the South African William Kentridge to design the sets for their production of The Magic Flute
1915. Kazimir Malevich shows his Suprematist canvases at the "0.10" exhibition in Petrograd, thus bringing the Russian Formalist concepts of art and literature into alignment
1913. Robert Delaunay exhibits his "Windows" paintings in Berlin; the initial problems and paradigms of abstraction are elaborated across Europe