Previous artists include Ai Weiwei, who deposited millions of ceramic sunflower seeds, Carsten Höller, who installed slides, and Doris Salcedo, who created an enormous crack in the floor.
Tate announced yesterday that the Duveens commission will become an annual sculpture event, along the lines of Tate Modern's yearly turbine hall commission, which has seen everything from Louise Bourgeois's spiders to Carsten Höller's slides and currently has Doris Salcedo's enormous crack in the ground.
There was the familiar: endless games in the back garden, begging family members to throw a ball at him, hitting a taped-up tennis ball against the bedroom wall so often that an enormous crack gradually opened up.
The central nave was roofed with three broad domes and flanked by vaulted aisles, but the whole building was riven with enormous cracks, some wide enough to admit daylight.
The courage in taking an enormous, cracked block of marble, attacking it directly, and winning over its weakness, the godlike anatomy of David's body, the turn of his head, the anxiety in his eyes, his glance disguising his fear is unsurpassed in art.
For 33 years the state allowed the plant to operate without a full permit, even as inspectors documented more than 100 violations, including lead and acid leaks, an overflowing pond of toxic sludge, enormous cracks in the floor and hazardous levels of lead in the soil outside.
Twenty-five thousand officers and men at Camp Dix, New Jersey, form an enormous Liberty Bell, crack and all; other groups arrange themselves into the American flag, the Statue of Liberty, Uncle Sam, and Woodrow Wilson.
What if a reformed drug dealer discovered that his house was sitting on an enormous rock of crack cocaine ("The Rock of Crack as Big as the Ritz")?
The sentencing disparity was enormous: penalties for crack under a 1986 drug law had been commonly referred to as 100 times greater than those for powder cocaine; the new rules brought the disparity to 18 to 1.
Lowery cracked an enormous smile when asked how Revis changed the Jets' defense, then answered with two words, "A lot".
It was a complete disregard of history, of context, of community; it was all about 'what can I get today.' It was just an enormous fault line that cracked the American system wide open.
