Will the £45m spent on London's newly renovated Tate Britain art gallery make it significantly more popular than Chester Zoo?
Sooner or later, he is going to have to go out to address a putt, only to have some joker in the gallery make a remark.
The tasteful lighting and careful placement of the horses around the compact second-floor gallery make it seem like a child's fantasy of a playroom.
Of course there are pleasures to be had from the frequently scabrous turns of phrase, of which the ripe rogues' gallery make the most, but the laughter rings rather hollow.
The masks, on view in a balcony gallery, make a quiet statement amid the eye-popping fabric art and masterful wood carvings by Colombian, Mexican, Ghanaian, Peruvian and South Indian artists, among others, who are now living in or near Westchester County.
Paul Noble's drawings of Nobson, showing at London's Gagosian gallery, make you count the effort: all those leaves on all those branches, all the buildings, all that nature and all that town-planning, all those hand-drawn bricks – and all of Noble's daft ideas, his stories, jokes and fragments.
