And this exhibition demands more than cursory attention.
Yet that's no excuse for the dry manner in which this exhibition relentlessly demands that we admire its orphreys.
Although the organization of such an enormous exhibition was demanding, the gallery's ten-year milestone represents the completion of a much more difficult accomplishment.
Jack Richter, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman, was quoted as having said, "We respect the rights to have an art exhibition, but we demand the security of other people's property".
Lissitzky also designed and managed on site less demanding exhibitions like the 1930 Hygiene show in Dresden.
Because the Amistad rebellion and the subsequent legal proceedings concerned the sensitive issues of race and slavery, the Amistad exhibitions and historical sites demand a degree of introspection from visitors.
Mr Shapiro says his team has been busy signing up exhibitors for the 2011 show and that demand for exhibition space is already greater than it was this time last year.
Two years ago in a case with some similarities, a federal judge ruled that New York City authorities who were sponsoring a whimsical exhibition of cows could demand that PETA change its message on a cow sculpture that said not to eat meat.
The museum's description of the exhibition asserts: "Delirious times demand delirious art".
Trecartin's art is to narrative filmmaking what hypertext is to writing, and it's the moments of hyperlinking, the recollections a viewer may have from another video in another room, that demand an exhibition setting.
