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78 CULTURED 4 Artists, musicians, poets and intellectuals once gathered at Black Mountain College, a small experimental liberal arts school in Asheville, North Carolina, to exchange utopian ideas and integrate the arts into their education. People like Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and Robert Motherwell, among others, taught and studied there, generating a rich cultural field which exerted a great deal of influence on the post-war cultural life of the United States. The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston's "Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957" is the first comprehensive museum exhibition on the school and features individual works and archival materials by more than 90 artists. icaboston.org 3 5 If there's one characteristic that unifies British architect David Adjaye's buildings—which number more than 50—it's that they are conversational with their surroundings. Striking in their temple-like minimalism, it's the architect's ability to converse through these buildings, raising the level of social dialogue that makes Adjaye one of the most important architects working today. His first survey, "Making Place: The Architecture of David Adjaye," opening at the Art Institute of Chicago on September 19, showcases his singular style through furniture, master plans, drawings, sketches, models and mock-ups. artic.edu New York's Hauser & Wirth presents its first exhibition of Los-Angeles-based artist Rachel Khedoori. Merging film, architecture and sculpture, Khedoori's work collides and blurs boundaries between the actual and the perceived. "Rachel Khedoori" runs through October 24. hauserwirth.com Adjaye's plans for a government complex in Libreville, Gabon, 2015 Untitled, 2015 Anni Albers' Knot 2, 1947 IMAGE COURTESY OF ADJAYE ASSOCIATES; COURTESY OF THE JOSEF AND ANNI ALBERS FOUNDATION; COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND HAUSER & WIRTH © RACHEL KHEDOORI