The many great works in the show's first half tend to be overly familiar, drawn from the museum's collection.
But there are ways to lead audiences to new content, beyond the familiar draws of news and music, sport and drama.
In the 16th century the work of the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder is full of near caricature, as in the familiar drawing of an artist who is troubled at his easel by a nosy peering connoisseur behind his shoulder.
Mr. Rabkin believes the play is perhaps the most ambiguous of all Shakespeare's plays, and compares it to "the gestaltist's familiar drawing," which, looked at one way, is a rabbit, but, if one shifts focus, can seem like a duck.
These interfaces were based on two different haptic metaphors, one of which mimicked familiar drawing tools (such as pen, pencil or crayon on smooth or rough paper) and the other of which drew on abstract descriptors of haptic experience (roughness, stickiness, scratchiness and smoothness).
For Kevin and his daughter, the answers are familiar — we draw on the resources that already exist, our friends and family and community.
"I have always been interested in cars and got familiar with drawing since a very young age," she said.
The familiar rhythm drew you right back in: the seamless sequence of passes, quickening and subsiding, then breaking off and starting over.
A slick and inventive designer, Mr. McGinness has developed an expansive vocabulary of eccentric, vaguely familiar symbols drawn from art historical and modern vernacular sources.
Mr. Payne, a native Nebraskan, and Mr. Begley, a Manhattan lawyer, have placed Schmidt in familiar milieus, drawing moral and aesthetic details according to what they know.
