Femme Maison by Louise Bourgeois

Cyril Croucher | Coverack

Cyril Croucher (b.1951), Coverack, Acrylic

Noriwaki Miyamoto | Dream of Blue Houses

Noriwaki Miyamoto (1940), Dream of Blue Houses, Japanese colour etching with aquatint.

Villa Julia designed by Mariscal 2009

A small cardboard house designed for Magis by Javier Mariscal.

Sigma Polke | Potato House

Objekt Kartoffelhaus, Object Potato House, 1967

Slideshow

Paul McCarthy at the Whitney

Paul McCarthy, Bang Bang Room, 1992. Wood, steel, electric motors, linoleum, wallpaper,dimensions variable. Collection Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Hauser & Wirth

Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement Three Installations, Two Films

This exhibition brings together a group of new and rarely seen works by Paul McCarthy (b. 1945), one of the most influential American artists of his generation. The show focuses on a core strand of McCarthy's work: the use of architecture to create perceptual disorientation in the viewer through spinning mirrors, rotating walls, projections, and altered space. In Bang Bang Room (1992), the space almost seems to come alive as the walls of a free-standing domestic room move slowly in and out, the doors in each wall wildly slamming open and shut. In Spinning Room (2008), first conceived in 1971, but being realized for the first time for this show, live images of viewers are rotated and projected onto double-sided screens that appear infinitely reflected on four surrounding mirrored walls, enclosing the viewer in a wildly disorienting space. In Mad House (2008), being created for this show, a room spins disconcertingly on its axis. Two recently rediscovered films by McCarthy, one made in 1966 and one in 1971, reveal the artist's interest in perceptual puzzlement from the very beginning of his career.

Also now on view, Paul McCarthy: Film List, a film program curated by McCarthy, which provides an intriguing insight into the impact of cinema on his thinking as an artist.

Richard Barnes | Unabomber Cabin

Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, philosopher/terrorist, serving life in prison for crimes either committed out of dedication to a cause, or madness or both, had not only been extracted from his rural home but the home itself has been incarcerated. The cabin was shipped across the country to be used as evidence in his trial. Barnes's work looks at historical and contemporary artifacts (in this case the cabin and its site), and using the imagery and methods of architecture /archaeology it attempts to bridge the gap between the banal and the extraordinary, the cult of celebrity and the seductiveness of the infamous. This work was exhibited at the Henry Urbach Gallery in New York in January 1999, traveled to the Triannual of Photography in Hamburg, Germany in May of 1999 and was the subject of a one person exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art in August of 2000.