At Ambach & Rice Gallery: The Vatican, empty.
  • At Ambach & Rice Gallery: The Vatican, empty.
The new Nano Gallery in Santa Monica claims to be the smallest gallery in the world, at (I think) six by six by six inches.

Big words!

But no way I'm buying it. The history of art is full of weird little spaces. Just in the Northwest in the last decade alone, there's been the Tollbooth Gallery in Tacoma, the Telephone Room in Tacoma, and the short-lived but potentially smaller-than-Nano desk drawer gallery in the former iteration of Ambach & Rice in Seattle, which was called The Vatican, and which, in the gallery's current iteration, has been upsized to a window box with nothing in it (but to which, as the photo says, something will be COMING SOON).

(Thanks, Artnet.)