Architecture of Authority

ARCHITECTURE OF AUTHORITY

At the Aperture Gallery in New York from May 22 – July 31, 2008, is "Architecture of Authority," photographer Richard Ross’s collection of pictures that deal with some of the most pressing civil liberties issues of our time through the architecture and interiors of the rooms and buildings in which these issues are confronted.

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(Photographs by Richard Ross; Slideshow courtesy of Aperture Gallery)

Listen to a podcast of photographer Richard Ross (right) speak to ACLU attorney Ben Wizner about the photographs (19:52) >>

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“Architecture of Authority” will be on display at the Aperture Gallery (547 West 27th St., 4th Floor) through July 31. After that, the exhibit will travel to the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kan., this fall, then will go on to the Goldstein Museum of Design at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul from February 7, 2009 through April 5, 2009. It will be at the Tampa Museum of Art from September 11, 2009 through November 8, 2009.