The show continues outdoors with a number of compelling installations.
The stage designer Robert Carsen has created witty, imaginative and compelling installations, making a fashion show out of a cluster of Manet paintings by lining the rooms with red carpet and gilded chairs, each with a handwritten name of society figures of the era.
As a result, some of the installations rely more on higher-tech mechanisms to create visually appealing demonstrations of water's capacities, rather than using ready-made or used material to create compelling installations that are less directly educational and more abstractly meaningful.
One of the examples elaborating upon identity crisis is Pepon Osorio's compelling projection installation depicting a teenage mother singing a Spanish lullaby while curling herself into a crib.
It works, certainly, for Muntadas, the Barcelona-born multimedia artist who has lived in New York since 1971 and here presents two compelling video installations and a series of prints.
Metaphors abound in this compelling site-specific installation piece by Juana Valdes, a Cuban-born artist who now lives in New York City.
Among the obliquely conceptual works by nine artists, the most compelling is an installation by Michael Rakowitz documenting a project in which he opened a storefront in Brooklyn to sell food products from Iraq.
