He would also make a great installation artist.
I saw a great installation of Ward's at P.S. 1.
The trend began in 1999 with the Malaysian Grand Prix circuit outside Kuala Lumpur, then hailed as the greatest installation in Formula One history.
Not to be confused with the late, great installation artist Mike Kelley, designer, illustrator, and occasional curator Mike Kelley couldn't be more different from the Kelley who tragically committed suicide nearly five years ago.
I get influenced by artists in a more practical way, for example a few years ago, I was making photographs, but after seeing great installations on Art Basel or at museums, I got motivated to make an installation myself.
It's a great big radar installation with huge domes and the covering on it is tattered.
Tim Marlow, the artistic programmes director of the RA, said it was not just the oil paintings that were important: "His garden at Giverny was the first great art installation of the 20th century".
Created over half a century by a passionate circus fan, Howard Tibbals, the three-quarter-inch-to-the-foot scale replica covers 3,800 square feet and is, as one might say, the Greatest Historical Installation on Earth.
Last month, we hosted the seventh negotiating round of a great scientific installation, ITER.
Now they give me compassionate pause in what I feel obliged to say apropos of current proposals that aim to resolve the foundation's chronic financial and administrative woes by moving the collection to a new home downtown: Altering so much as a molecule of one of the greatest art installations I have ever seen would be an aesthetic crime.
