industrial materials, esp. found or barely touched are frequently used in minimalist and post minimalist art (chamberlins cars, andres bricks, flavins lights, judds metal and plywood, palmeros fabrics)--the largest collections of this work are stored by dia who has taken over an old army base (marfa) and a cracker factory (beacon) and the tate, who uses the old bankshead power station.

how does medium inform musuem, is it a practical space issue, or is it something larger ?

(also thinking of martin as the most painterl minimalist, a new essay in W qoutes her as self indetifying(sp) as an abexer, which gives caution to our thoughts of cannons and who belongs in them)