Despite being unflatteringly installed in a stairwell, this is a beautiful and ingenious installation.
The Met Breuer is not yet a year old, but it has already distinguished itself as a site of beguiling and serious surprises: a huge survey of unfinished works by masters of Western art, a provocatively ingenious installation of Diane Arbus photographs, and a terrific retrospective (soon to close) of the African-American painter Kerry James Marshall.
Over all, there are almost as many heroines as heroes in the show, which has been assembled with scrupulous care by Alisa LaGamma, a curator in the museum's department of the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, and set in one of the most ingenious installations I've seen at the Met in years.
The always-impressive crowd, along with an ingenious art installation for a venue, help account for the gala's ever-growing popularity, but there are other key factors as well.
There you'll encounter a spare and contemplative installation by the ingenious French artist Pierre Huyghe, who has put a deep-time twist on the adage "Ars longa, vita brevis" and a conceptual bent on the rock garden.
Patrick Jacobs's peephole installation about vermin and pesticides is ingenious.
She is also good at extending the boundaries of art to embrace comic books, graphic novels and posters, and tweaking site-specificity, which originated in sculptural installations tied to specific locations, into an ingenious (if slightly obvious) narrative device.
The Europeans have limited space, but have put wind and solar in small installations in many places, some of them ingenious, including rooftop solar for car parks and wind machines on waste dumps.
Through a bit of ingenious meddling, he reboots this detritus to produce witty, and touchingly homemade, video and art installations.
Ingenious thought it is, no genies appear in Emily Hall's tiny and effective Found and Lost, subtitled "an opera installation", conceived with David Sheppard and based on poems by Matthew Welton written using texts found within Corinthia hotel, London.
