A new retrospective of Gordon Matta-Clark has just opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The New York Times calls the exhibit “excellent” and “heavenly,” a wonderful celebration of the too-short career of “this charismatic Pied Piper of experimentalism from the frontier days of what came to be called SoHo, which he helped establish as a lively art community.” Matta-Clark’s interest in art even included the edible variety: his restaurant, Food, introduced exotic cooking to New York long before international cuisine had become one of the city’s hallmarks.

The exhibit’s accompanying catalogue, Gordon Matta Clark: “You are the Measure”, is published by Yale University Press.