Says Roberta Smith in the N.Y. Times (10/13/07): "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. To accommodate such graphic urges, the large space was lined with shimmering, foil-covered Celotex insulation board, which is easily punctured with just about anything, even fingernails. When the show opened, the foil board covering the lower half of the walls was untouched; the upper half was a riot of graffiti, bas-relief carvings, patterns and drawings created during the show’s first stop, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago."

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