Sam Gilliam brings the heat to the Tate with his all too awesome, revolutionary draped painting, Simmering.

You can’t miss it. It’s the one that looks like a curatorial disaster but is actually just really really cool. Sam Gilliam proves his cool with the fact that he revolutionized the way art is displayed. Rather than stretching the canvas onto a frame like all the kooks that came before him starting with da Vinci and ending with John Currin (and everyone in between), Gilliam decided to just drape it like a wet towel. He said he wanted to “deal with the canvas as material … using it as a more tactile way of painting.” The coolest part about this is that Simmering looks different every time it’s hung. In this way it’s kind of like your hair. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s meh, but it’s always inconsistent.

This work and the whole hanging thing officially makes Gilliam the most chill, laid back artist ever. How he came up with the idea to turn a painting into a sculpture, I’ll never know. Except we do know and I’ll tell you. He came up with the idea while captivated by hanging laundry outside his Washington D.C. studio. Sure, it’s not the sexiest story you’ve ever heard, but maybe if America stepped away from sex and violence for a second and just looked at more hanging laundry, then the world would be full of more cool stuff like Simmering.