Ms. Day takes the idea of exploding female stereotypes a little too literally: she creates installations in which glamorous evening gowns are shown in the process of being blown to bits.
Despite a glamorous raised bar and sculptural light installation, the room has a stolid, municipal feel.
It -- the entire show in fact -- recalls the gothic darkness of a Banks Violette installation, not with the glamorous brutality of heavy metal's clashing riffs, but with the whine of youthful angst.
PUBLIC ART FUND TALKS The artist Alex Katz, whose 1977 multistory installation in Times Square featuring the images of glamorous women was an early project of the fund, talks about his career.
The book, from 1995, is the true-crime memoir of John E. Douglas, who was writing as a former F.B.I. agent on his way to installation as Hollywood's idea of the glamorous G-man, behavioral-sciences edition.
But after years of visiting, I can report that it consistently produces some of the best Asian shows in town, with first-rate material, handsome installations and catalogs by some of the more glamorous specialists in the field.
The two-level boutique, which has been given a glamorous face-lift by Peter Marino, also features several chic art commissions, including mirrored glass installations by Rob Wynne, a Oyoram video piece and a stunning ceiling relief by David Wiseman.
It's that need for technical support that prompted the installation of a full-time "vegetable butcher" at Eataly when that glamorous food emporium opened in the Flatiron district in 2010: an employee whose sole job is to trim, peel and cut produce to order.
The installation is based on a well-known 1986 piece called "Talent" by David Robbins, which consisted of glamorous studio headshots of several artists — Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer and so on — who were becoming stars at the time.
