when the pompidou center in paris was planned, it was envisioned as a kind of antimuseum. it was to become a factory of information, a sort of center for news, a center for the masses, a kind of supermarket for culture. the idea was that the square and all the area around the building was more important in a certain way than the space inside. they thought that the museum has to go in the street and not the people from the street have to go in the museum. it was reversing the attention of visitors. the original plan called for huge video screens, projecting news of the world into the square. this whimsical fountain by jean tinguely and nicky de stael add to the creative surroundings. all over the world in the seventies, artists felt the desire to get out of the enclosed space of the museum and try to invade the city, so they start to think big, and they start to think in a large-scale way that creates objects that compete with skyscrapers and with large elements. but also they want to compete with the media and create something that is so theatrical, that takes the attentio