"Since Rudolf Stingel’s sleek midcareer survey opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in June, hundreds of visitors have been allowed to depart radically from traditional museum protocol (hands off) and have a go at the walls in the exhibition’s first gallery, using anything they happen to have with them: pens, money, credit cards, cellphones."
"It helps that the bits of remaining silver foil glint in the light from a large, genuine cut-crystal chandelier in the center of the ceiling (also foil-covered, but untouched). The contrast is probably part of the point: they represent two extremes of craftsmanship, beauty and fragility."Found here
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