The Exhibitions That Defined the 2000s

Is it too soon to write the history of the new millennium’s first decade? The period feels close at hand. Its eponymous generational cohort is ascendant. The computer systems many feared would malfunction at the stroke of midnight in 2000 have only entangled us further. The wars that began in the decade continue. The effects of the 2008 economic collapse still linger. And yet the aughts are just distant enough to allow us to gain some critical insight, to assess the gap between what captur