I kind of had a hard time getting into this essay, however, as a studio arts major I liked how the author tied in how the concept of the white cube as gallery space has changed over time. For many years art was two dimensional and, for the most part, hung only on the walls of a space. Today it’s fairly common to visit an art gallery and an artist transform an entire room, but, as the author mentions the progression of using an entire space to display work was a slow process and didn’t really come about until the 1960’s when minimalist sculptors began thinking of the gallery as a 3d space. “Finally, the white cube becomes a cube – rather than just a collection of 2-D surfaces. “