Interior Design - August 1, 2003

As of the 2002 "soft opening" of New York's conTEMPorary gallery, the art-world hype mechanism was already in place. How could it not be—with dealer-provocateur Kenny Schachter at the helm and anti-art artist turned architect Vito Acconci behind the design? However, only the first floor of the two-story gallery was finished; upstairs was raw, open space.

• Departments
• Books
• Books
• Centerfold
• Northern Exposure
• Crosslines
• A Colossal Talent*
• Designers and Photographers in This Issue
• Bios
• Editorial
• Art out of bounds
• Freezeframe
• Freeze Frame
• Matters of Design
• By Any Other Name*
• News Desk
• Meet Me in Saint Louis
• America's Best
• SOM to Go
• Minority Report
• News bytes

• Features
• Rainbow Rhodes
• Blue chip*
• Shades of Kyoto
• Raising the Roof
• Type-A Collector
• A Museum Comes of Age*

• Special Report
• IIDA Awards
• The Top of the Heap
• Lighting
• Lighting
• NeoCon World's Trade Fair
• NeoCon World's Trade Fair

• Walk-Through
• On a Roll
• Speaking Across Time
• The Saatchi Sensation