…is the show that’s up right now, so say several people who’ve seen it. It’s a group show called Insubstantial Pageant Faded, and one of the artists is Anthony McCall, whose life and work Jen Graves writes about in the current issue…

Back in the 1970s, he made sculpture out of the dust motes and cigarette smoke that just happened to be floating in downtown New York lofts. He’d turn down the lights, as if for a film screening, and project animated, slowly moving line drawings onto a wall. The thick, low-rent air would materialize into ghostly shapes tethered both to the projector and to the wall: enterable, cinematic sculpture. Soon, galleries and museums uptown wanted the sculptures. But in those spaces, the air was pristine. The sculptures were, quite literally, rendered invisible when they were moved to “legitimate” venues…

Read the rest of the piece here.