2024-12-21T22:02:52-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/117976955/white-space-the-architecture-of-the-art-fair Nicholas Korody 2015-01-13T09:30:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e3/e3ln3ixgs4a3xku9.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>In his 1942 short story &ldquo;<a href="http://hyperdiscordia.crywalt.com/library_of_babel.html" target="_blank">The Library of Babel</a>,&rdquo; Jorge Luis Borges describes a universe consisting of a potentially infinite library of adjacent hexagonal rooms. Convinced that the library contains every imaginable ordering of twenty-five orthographic symbols, the inhabitants of this universe search incessantly, and futilely, for meaning amid the endless shelves. While an individual art fair is never actually infinite, its labyrinthine rows of cubicles can appear endless.</p>