The reception was at the Harvard Semitic Museum, a University pioneer in teaching the humanities through objects and object making.
(The rule for which pieces of furniture and objects make it onto the Farm, Ms. Dagnal explained: "It has to make you bite your knuckle, and it can't be dinky").
Essentially, Orgel, which exists at Fylkingen, a space in Stockholm, is a contemporary version of a traditional organ; where plastic tubes and objects make up seven wind instruments and sound is produced via compressed air.
It sells books about the artist and objects made in his style.
It pays homage to the simplicity, proportions and power of wooden furniture and objects made by early 19th-century Shakers (an American Quaker offshoot; communal, celibate and pacifist).
For those with a boundless appetite for top-quality art and objects, making a trip to this small Dutch city is an annual imperative.
Objects of art - which cannot be exported - quite reasonably include invaluable icons and rare antiques, but contemporary paintings and objects made by hand (hard to come by in any case) may also be confiscated.
The archive includes video recordings of all of Mr. Barney's performances, along with drawings, sculptures, and objects made out of his signature materials of petroleum wax and self-lubricating plastic and encased in vitrines.
But the sign and exit did not placate opponents, who said the exhibition, blending Nazi and Holocaust icons, photographs and imagery with commercial images and objects, made a mockery of human suffering.
That was the question posed three years ago by the British furniture designers Peter Toaig and Garry Olson, organizers of an exhibition called "Onetree," which includes hundreds of housewares, toys and objects made from one oak, a 170-year-old specimen.
