The task of making surfaces that you can actually hang paintings on has gone, instead, to Daniel Kohl, the museum's installation designer.
THE eccentric spiral ramp of the Guggenheim Museum can foment exhibition heaven or exhibition hell, depending on the art, the curator and the installation designer involved.
Correction: August 3, 2003, Sunday An art exhibition review last Sunday about "'Seafaring Orient," at the Oysterponds Historical Society in Orient, misstated the given name of the installation designer.
But it is not the installation designer's fault that nearly all the 130 prints, drawings and collages on view function largely as markers of your progress from one pocket of music and moving pictures to another.
Using a guidebook, the audience -- one by one, as decreed by Ms. Warner -- combed parts of the city looking for angels, each played by one of 40 performers at nine different habitats created by Ms. Warner and Tom Pye, an installation designer.
The charity Historic Royal Palaces worked with the artist Paul Cummins and installation designer Tom Piper to create the artwork, which consisted of 888,246 ceramic poppies, each planted in the moat by one of tens of thousands of volunteers, and each representing a lost life on the British and colonial side in the Great War.
From April 3 - 6, French transmedia installation designer Miguel Chevalier bedecked the halls with Magic Carpets 2014, a projected animation that turned the institution's massive floor into a multicolored, reactive art experience. .
If you wanted an experience to make you feel like some kind of omnipotent being who could command the physical world at their will, then this interactive installation, from designers WHITEvoid and Hyundai's Advanced Design Center, should do the trick.
But this loose dramatisation of real events that took place in the Yorkshire village of Goldthorpe was equally memorable for the pre-performance installation by designer Max Jones, which took you as close to a pit face as you are likely to come without being penned in a cage and plummeting 250 feet underground.
Some of our favorites included: the fashion panel and clothing line installation by designer Vega Wang, Hojun Song's Apple 2010 interactive LED sculpture, the animation panel with Peng Lei and the mind-bending performance from his punk-electro-pop outfit, New Pants (stay tuned here for an upcoming interview with the artist and musician later this week).
An established landscape architect or designer may hire you to help with the installation and design setup.
