The roommates envisaged these warehouses as venues for what Paglen calls "conceptual-art-slash-party things" — comfortable living wasn't the point.
Dialogues inside The Dream's home in The Bad Batch felt like listening to a live reading of Reeves' Ode to Happiness, his art-slash-poetry book full of Keanu-isms like "I draw a hot sorrow bath" and, my personal favorite "Then I put on my alone again silk pajamas".
For a time, Mr. Larson helped his crew of friends and art students slash diamond-shaped ventilation holes in the walls and ceiling.
Coming soon to the Museum of Sex is "Funland: Pleasures & Perils of the Erotic Fairground," an art installation slash naughty carnival by conceptual artist duo Bompas & Parr.
A bit of a philistine, the Joker runs wild in Gotham's art museum, slashing paintings, slaying patrons and otherwise causing headaches for Bruce Wayne and company.
It's part of the gamelatron, a room-size art installation-slash-musical instrument that melds digital technologies with indigenous Indonesian musical traditions, and was designed and built by Mr. Etundi's roommate, Aaron Taylor Kuffner.
Barely able to remember a time when the web didn't exist, this group has been forced to grow up online, living in public like the artists in the human terrarium under New York City once did in an art project-slash-eerie premonition of a future yet to come.
Five years later, with state arts funds slashed and the group in crisis, Mr. Lythgoe took over as executive director as well.
Among the hardest hit were universities, where the number of students dropped almost 50 percent to 156,000 in 2011, from 300,000 in 2008, as admission standards were raised and liberal arts careers slashed.
