Every made thing pushes back, and this walk is about that resistance — the moment the material, the site, or the scale stops obeying and starts collaborating. The Audacity of Scale anchors it: twenty-one artists testing whether bigness does real conceptual work or just fills the room, and scale is the most architectural variable there is, the one that acts on your body before your mind catches up — the one argument a reproduction can never carry.

Uptown at the quiet end, Shorelines hangs two centuries of American painters at the waterline, where ground gives way to sky and the artist has to render a boundary that never stops moving. On the Road brings the theme outdoors and political: Salgado, Burtynsky, Steve McCurry, and Anna Fox & Karen Knorr on the road as built infrastructure — Burtynsky’s manufactured terrain especially, land reshaped into route.

Brian Alfred sands the hand away into flat, signage-like cityscapes; Mary Sibande turns the printed image toward reclaimed power, the servant’s dress swollen into a queen’s. The through-line is the maker’s real subject: not the idea in the head, but the argument the material makes back. Five shows, all closing this month — a walk with a clock on it.