The work tasks include removal of old flooring, grinding, filling, installation of underlay, measuring and cutting materials, gluing, welding and installation of skirting board.
This is as true of room-filling installations by Mr. Tayou and Georges Adéagbo as it is of the archival collections of family photographs by Santu Mofokeng, one of South Africa's most important mid-career artists, and the hermetic, data-rich collages of Moshekwa Langa, whom someone should grab for a New York solo, as they should Ms. Sidera and Rachid Koraichi, whose range is only hinted at here.
We drove over to the White Oak Civil War Museum, a modest old school building filled with installations and artifacts that amazed even the most-well-traveled buffs among us.
Music was playing continuously (Glenn Gould, Meredith Monk) and the white walls were filled with installations of thousands of fragile porcelains waiting to be packed up, vessel by tiny vessel, and shipped by boat to New York for the Gagosian show.
To see these pieces in a totally Judd-designed setting, visit the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Tex., a onetime military base that Judd filled with installations of his and other artists' works.
I was greeted at the museum by a phalanx of volunteers, one of whom became my personal guide as I walked through three buildings filled with installations, many of them interactive.
I wander up escalators, halls filled with installations, small experimental performances, a section dedicated to "Music Hack Day".
A separate, room-filling installation addresses the low-risk topic of the pedagogy of art.
Walking for the first time down the narrow aisle between the two halves of the room-filling installation, with oil pressing against their edges, held in by molecular forces as it peeped over the steel walls, was awe-inspiring.
Shu-Min Shu-Min Linfilling installation of wooden shipping crates, arranged around a video of naked people emerging from cardboard shipping cartons to the sound of crying babies, is about immigration as rebirth.
Eleven monolithic cylinders rest in the Park Avenue Armory's cavernous drill hall, and seven times a night, professional mourners from around the world fill the installation with songs of lament.
