Is This Tomorrow?

For a major new presentation in 2019, Whitechapel Gallery in London is taking as a model its groundbreaking 1956 exhibition This Is Tomorrow. Organised by architect, writer and sculptor Theo Crosby, This Is Tomorrow featured 37 artists, architects, designers and writers who worked together in 12 small groups. At its core was the Independent Group, the proto-pop collective comprised of (at various stages) Reyner Banham, Lawrence Alloway, Nigel Henderson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, W...