He also lent the museum five Happenings films and seems especially happy with their installation — projected in a dark room with several running simultaneously.
(By the time of a second interview, long after the Wexner show had a positive review in The New Yorker, his opinion had changed. "I was ultimately really happy with the installation," he said.
Lu's recent controversial installation "Happy Tree" features frogs, lizards, and other river creatures that she recorded by shooting lab containers inside a tree structure.
The work of the British artist Ryan Gander, "The Happy Prince" is an installation commissioned by the nonprofit Public Art Fund, which presents art around New York City.
A fluid draftsman, he recently produced 120 graphite drawings of Martin Kippenberger's 1994 installation "The Happy End of Franz Kafka's 'Amerika,' " which envisioned the United States as a giant employment agency: a place of both opportunity and cut-throat competition.
Called "Have Yourself a Happy Little Robotmas," the installation at the American Visionary Art Museum is an evocation of Irwin's Christmas tradition of decorating his yard with literally millions of holiday lights.
Kafka left the work unfinished, but he got as far as securing an ambiguous position for Karl in the Theatre of Oklahama, a fact celebrated by the German artist Martin Kippenberger in his installation "The Happy End of Franz Kafka's 'Amerika,' " which ran recently at MoMA (Peter Schjeldahl reviewed it in our March 9th issue).
At the cocktail party celebrating "Happy Ever After," his installation at the Moroso showroom, a young crowd drained Champagne straight from the bottle as they draped themselves across his new bench, swivel chair and swings hanging from the ceiling, which were themselves draped with colorful laser- and water-jet-cut fabrics.
COMMON PROCEDURES If things are still broken — or you're not happy with the results — a fresh installation of the operating system may be in order.
