Taken at face value, the exhibition is an amusing collection of nutty, extravagant, sometimes frightening but mostly wildly optimistic pictures of the technological future.
For all its Germanic severity, this is an amusing, immensely satisfying, even beautiful exhibition, and the first time Mr. Schulze has shown more than once with a New York gallery.
The exhibition also includes amusing variations of traditional textile-related objects, like a cartoonish bearskin rug made of cast white rubber by Eelko Moorer and a fine white Damask tablecloth by Job Smeets that has fighter planes, military tanks, rats and other not-nice motifs woven into it.
It's the amusing finish to an expansive exhibition that includes instruments, sheet music written in his own hand, and family letters demonstrating a close relationship.
They did not build - although they did design furniture - but made their case through provocative and amusing photo-collages, films, furniture and exhibitions.
Bennett Sykes Blackburn's amusing "Tourist Trap," last seen in Greenport's "Footfalls" outdoor exhibition, is on the lawn, where its satiric comment on the lure of a fishing village is less effective than it was on the Greenport waterfront.
It's also one of the amusing themes in "It's News to Me!," a summer exhibition on journalism in the gallery at the Queens Borough Public Library's central branch.
This new exhibition promises to do exactly that in a bold, amusing and interesting way.
WALKING out of a Mel Ramos exhibition the other day, my companion remarked on how benignly amusing his paintings now seemed.
