An installation of handmade fish-skin lanterns houses the work, the second in a trilogy inspired by Ms. Johnson's Yup'ik Eskimo heritage.
Within an installation of 51 handmade fish-skin lanterns, created by Ms. Johnson and participants from workshops held in conjunction with residencies around the country, the work explores ideas about how a place, including a body, can tie everything and everyone together.
They dug a crater and strung enormous, handmade fishing nets overhead that were illuminated with colored light.
One day, while Mr. Charters set up his tape recorder, Ms. Charters became fascinated with some handmade fishing sloops nearby.
Further below is Mr. Takebayashi's "hobby floor," where he keeps his handmade fishing tackle and rods, while the lowest level opens onto the garden.
He has also converted the New Museum's stacked-box exterior into a pedestal of sorts, attaching a beautiful 30-foot handmade fishing boat to the front, where it looks a bit, well, marooned.
My brother and I sold handmade fishing lures on Cape Cod and worked as porters during a ferry boat strike.
Read How to catch fish with your hands, How to catch trout with your bare hands and How to make a handmade fishing net for more details.
And indeed, Al Forno (about a 10-minute walk from the museum) was superb, from the first little appetizer of handmade, baked fish cakes, to the delicious main course of spaghetti in an unusual sauce of zucchini and parmesan shavings.
