Along with Dia: Beacon I would have to say that Sculpture Center in Queens was one of the most interesting places to look at art. Like Dia: Beacon, Sculpture center is committed to giving their artists great freedom in designing and installing their exhibitions which results in what I would call more complete statements. If a gallery show is a sentence Sculpture Center is a paragraph. Certainly this is the case with the Tom Burr show currently on view. Burr's work is informed by a number of influences including literature, fashion, and the history of sculpture. The central area of the show is devoted to three important figures in modernist art and culture: Chick Austin, Frank O'Hara, and Kurt Weill. I was impressed by the way Burr is able to use such delicate arrangements and gestures to suggest meaning and history. Particularly in the use of draped cloth, Burr is able to reference both fashion, theater and the history of drapery in sculpted form. While his work is highly conceptual and requires a fair amount of unpacking, the elegance of the forms created with materials ranging from a straight jacket, a modernist chaise lounge and magazine clippings, create instant visual interest that allow me to consider the works more closely.