But another is the tour de force that the show's curators have brought off by putting multifarious works — paintings, sculpture, photographs, videos, installations — in orbit around a primordial idea: home, where you hang your hat, if you have one, and where the heart is or, for some grim reason, fails to be.
Ali Abbas: In His Own Words (Radio 4) revisited the grim reasons that made Abbas a name and image known across the world: the night in 2003 that he lost 16 members of his family, including his parents, when a US rocket hit their house in Iraq.
Forensic pathologist and crime writer Bernard Knight had to do thousands of autopsies in his career, often for grim reasons.
You won't be surprised to learn that there are exceptions to the time test in case of death, disability and involuntary separation, among other things (though those three are all pretty grim reasons for exceptions).
But there is another, grimmer, reason.
His friend John Keats came for grimmer reasons, hoping to shake off tuberculosis.
He always knew that 2011 would be a grim year.But reason gets you only so far, and exasperation with the public is a deadly sin.
Despite these grim statistics, reason for hope exists.
She can look a little grim, and with reason.
The president-elect's newly appointed chief-of-staff, Rahm Emanuel, insists that the grim outlook is reason to press rather than postpone the green agenda: "You don't ever want a crisis to go to waste; it's an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid".
AFTER months of opposition protests that it portrays as a "fascist coup", the government of Nicolás Maduro has reason for grim satisfaction.
