In keeping with that aim Björn and his sons have approached many exhibitions in recent years less as installations of work and more as the construction of a series of temporary encampments, beachheads in a battle against the ways galleries and museums tend to entomb works of radical art.
| "A Memorial Installation of Works by Robert Rauschenberg".
More complicated, but also tendentious, is an installation of works related to eating and slavery.
What lifts this higgledy-piggledy selection above your usual show-and-tell exhibition is the installation of works according to themes, thanks to the exhibition's curator, Dede Young.
You might view the jampacked, multifloor installation of works by close to 400 artists as a populist, radically inclusive survey of what artists in New York are really creating outside the filtering systems of galleries, museums and curators.
And among the shows with openings this week are a survey of Louisa Matthiasdottir's paintings at Salander-O'Reilly (now on view) and a new installation of works by Fred Sandback (opening tomorrow) that will inaugurate the Lawrence Markey Gallery, newly arrived from SoHo.
With 2010, the whole museum has been given over to celebrating the 75th anniversary of the show: alongside Collecting Biennials, an installation of works from the permanent collection by artists who have previously appeared, all the way from Edward Hopper, Warhol and Rothko to Kenneth Anger, Eva Hesse and Julian Schnabel.
Tuesday also brings the opening of a dense, salon-style installation of works by some 40 artists at De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space.
Installation of works by Jean-Michel BasquinTheJohn Ahearn and RoBroadTherrien in The Broad's third-floor galleries.
LOST (in LA), the premiere exhibition presented by FLAX (France Los Angeles Exchange) in partnership with the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), will feature a major installation of works by contemporary artists from both Los Angeles and France.
Shana and I headed to Scope to run an errand while they were still setting up the fair, then into Art Miami for a peek at the installation of works there.
