Cleaning the Air with Art

Chicago's new Museum of Contemporary Art was built with six tons of synthetic gypsum drywall. That in itself is not extraordinary: There's wallboard throughout the museum, which opened to the public in July. But what is unusual is that the museum's fourth-floor drywall is partially made of gypsum that had been used in an art project called "Sulfur Cycle" by Chicago environmental artist Dan Peterman.

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