The museum's galleries, organized by interests like music and cooking, tell the colorful histories of indigenous cultures.
The work in the Chinese galleries, organized by Maxwell K. Hearn, a curator in the Asian art department, is arranged by a set of Chinese pictorial themes -- water imagery, landscapes, floral motifs -- adopted by Japanese and Korean artists.
We are so used to walking into a gallery organized by a single painter or a period or theme that this exhibit is meant to challenge or defy more comfortable kinds of museumgoing.
The Wides show fills three adjoining galleries, organized predominantly by region.
Galleries are organized by themes including "encrypted self-portraits, erotic objects, dream scenes and myths, metamorphoses and fabulous beasts, dialogue with nature, representations of the invisible, play as an artistic strategy and the relationship of image and text," the main curator, Heike Eipeldauer, wrote in an e-mail.
Ms. Porter discovered his work early last year, in a solo two-gallery exhibition organized by the downtown nonprofit space Participant Inc. "People were raving about the show," she said.
He showed up without an invitation at a gallery opening organized by Caputo's public relations firm, according to Caputo's business partner, Sergey "George Petrushinn.
The Exit Art celebration has two halves, each accorded its own crowded, cavernous gallery, each organized by its founders and guiding spirits, Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo.
The show, which occupies four galleries, was jointly organized by White Box and M. Guelman Gallery in Moscow.
And from noon to 6 p.m., walking tours of area art galleries with Chelsea Art Walks, organized by the Downtown Arts Festival.
There is evidence of the new approach in shows like the Jackson Pollock survey, which is in the print galleries and was organized by the print curator, but also features paintings.
