From outside, no prominent sign announces a theme, and the art is crammed into the space in a way that recalls the packed, haphazardly arranged halls of the 19th-century Louvre more than the curated galleries of today.
Then there is the view: heaps of ravaged scaffolding scattered across an empty playground; fences twisted into helixes; damaged cars packed haphazardly in a sprawling lot; baby clothes hanging from a laundry line, suspended above the detritus of what was once a backyard.
It looks like a cutaway view of an animal whose organs have been packed in haphazardly.
I lifted the lid carefully to find 200 yellowing letters written in unfamiliar and impenetrable handwriting, packed inside haphazardly.
She might say that the first problem is sheer volume -- bras and underwear are jammed haphazardly onto racks that are packed too close together.
Across the Potomac River, in Annandale, Va., David Hill was looking askance at another Kmart offering, a $199 five-piece dining-table set packed into torn cardboard boxes and stacked haphazardly on a wooden pallet.
Anarchic and antarctic, Poles Apart is an animated, action packed, character comedy, following the adventures of Ryder, a haphazardly elf banished from Santa's grotto, to live in the South Pole with Santa's brother, Sandy Claus.
The haphazardly arranged red and ochre stuccoed walls of the buildings take on a tawny, sun-baked quality, children play by the little fountain, a grouchy black-clad old lady holding a yappy air-dog wanders by mumbling under her breath and an endless stream of full glasses and food-laden platters, held at head-height, dances through the packed tables.
WHILE packing my family's belongings for our move from Manhattan across the water to Brooklyn — dishes carefully, books tenderly, clothes haphazardly — I sit back, pour myself a cup of tea and wonder how Brooklyn will change me.
