Bouvier speaks an imperfect, gestural English, but he explained that becoming a shipper allowed him to immerse himself in "the feeling and the difficulty of art".
They suggest how the difficulties of describing art can be aided and disguised by the infinite poetic possibilities of language.
Improbably, there unfolds a genuinely affecting story about the vagaries of emotional connection and the difficulties of making art and being an artist.
In "Circle of Confusion," the Beirut artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige demonstrate the difficulties of making art in an environment that is often in a state of emergency.
Modernists distinguished between pleasure that was too easy and the difficulties of real art, yet they were so invested in dismissing easy pleasure that they could feel righteous in their preferences.
Peter Paul Biro, a forensic art expert from Montreal, filed a complaint last Wednesday against David Grann, a writer for The New Yorker, and against Advance Publications, which owns Condé Nast and The New Yorker, over a July 2010 New Yorker article that Mr. Grann wrote about the difficulties of authenticating art.
A critic who attended the première of the "Eroica" saw the impasse coming: "Music could quickly come to such a point, that everyone who is not precisely familiar with the rules and difficulties of the art would find absolutely no enjoyment in it".
The skillful prose of virtuosos like Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould belies the difficulty of the art.
It is a testament to his dedication that many of these artists have now joined the 20th century canon and that the difficulty of their art within the historic context it was originally presented in has been forgotten.
In the fitful "Put a Song in Your Thing," the artist Frances Stark ruminated, mostly in words typed onto a screen, on the difficulty of making art, and sexted with her Internet lover, repeatedly donning and shedding an elaborate dress in the shape of a rotary-dial telephone.
