6. Mies van der Rohe Haus Lange 1927

Mies van der Rohe’s ladies’ sitting room, Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, 1927. One of the clearest templates for the future white cube.

A black-and-white interior photograph shows a modern living room with a long sofa, low tables, sculptures, a wall-mounted display case and a framed reclining nude above the couch.

What’s the use of decolonizing the canon, decolonizing the collection and decolonizing the program if we don’t decolonize the white cube itself—the container that still structures how art is seen, experienced, classified and legitimized?

6. Mies van der Rohe Haus Lange 1927