Past installations include the use of napalm, Play-Doh, and off-brand energy drinks billed as having aphrodisiac properties.
Installations include The Earth Harp, billed as the world's biggest stringed instrument, and A Girl's Bedroom, from writer-director Enda Walsh, a free 20-minute immersive experience.
Other major military installations include the army posts of Schofield Barracks, Fort Shafter, and Fort De Russy; the Hickam and Wheeler air force bases; and the Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay.
Since its opening, the museum has presented a wide range of large-scale installations, including the work of Michael Heizer, Richard Serra, Dan Flavin and Barbara Kruger.
The redeployment of 11,000 soldiers from the First Armored Division in Germany to Fort Bliss would be partially offset by the closing of 15 installations, including the Red River Army Depot and Ingleside Naval Station.
New York fared poorly in the last round of base consolidations in 1995, losing two bases and some small installations, including the Roslyn Air National Guard Station.
Other installations, including the 2001 prizewinner, Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided, have won the prize on six separate occasions, while a sound installation by artist Susan Phillipsz singing three versions of a Scottish lament took the prize in 2010.
The Nevada mines are also close to military installations, including the Fallon Naval Air Station, complicating the deal, according to written summaries of meetings with Obama administration officials obtained by The New York Times.
Despite some closings in the 1970s, a major employer continues to be the U.S. Navy, with its complex of commands and installations, including the Naval Education and Training Center, Naval War College, Surface Warfare Officers School Command, Naval Justice School, and Naval Undersea Warfare Center.
Florian Ortkrass is a founder and director of Random International, a group of London-based artists who combine technology and natural elements to create temporary, interactive installations, including the recent "Rain Room" at the Musuem of Modern Art.
Others note that the family has been awarded contracts to help rebuild American military installations, including the Khobar Towers, which were damaged in a terrorist attack that killed nineteen servicemen in 1996.
