materiality

And, literally, across the street, you have Basquiat doing what he is doing, and it’s the opposite: It’s naming, materiality.

“Usually, shows of his work focus on his ethereality, like the ‘Monochromes’” — Klein’s single-color canvases — “but his show is anchored in the materiality and the tangible.”

He argued that the “materiality provision” of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was designed to prevent that.

National and state Republican committees argued the date requirement is useful in detecting fraud and that the materiality provision of the Civil Rights Act was inapplicable.

Perhaps to amplify the difference between analog and digital, the show’s savvy installation goes all-in on emphatic materiality.