White Cube Thinking : How to Contextualize and Present Practice? Response to Tobias Green (2017) The Witworth. Brian O’Doherty in his book, Inside the White Cube The Ideology of the Gallery Space (2000) frames the term White Cube as a metaphor for the modern gallery. The Whitworth with its recent renovations (2014 by MUMA architects) with influences from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater 1964, the new build spans glass rectangular projections into the natural environment, connected to gallery spaces, lofty and multileveled, the traditional white cube. The Gardens so beautiful even now in the dead of winter, sharp cold sunlight, everything has died back and it is such a life struggle to make new green shoots, new beginnings, new connections and leave the old dead past behind. But it’s not completely behind, it’s the structure of the future, it is the pylon and armature of what is to be created. Black stumps of WW1 trees, poked, black, mouldered and wet out of the mu...