As a technical enterprise, Chinapol is modest: it's housed on the server of U.C.L.A.'s Center for Chinese Studies, administered by the center's assistant director, with some technical support provided by the U.C.L.A. International Institute.
In doing so, he allows the pure and natural beauty of a cloud's familiar form to contrast with the man-made space it's housed in before it makes its inevitable departure.
But those people, he said, "confuse the importance of the art and the building; a museum is its collection, not the building it's housed in".
It's housed in one of the city's oldest buildings (once one of its longest-running brothels), and has an atmospheric speakeasy feel.
It's housed in a mansion on Manhattan's Upper East Side, on the same stretch of Fifth Avenue shared by the Guggenheim, the Jewish Museum and the Met.
And, of course, its scarcity is perhaps the reason it's housed a story above the pool.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn Through March 24 As far as I know, Holland Tunnel is the city's smallest gallery open to the public: it's housed in a gardening shed in a Brooklyn backyard.
It's housed within the Federal Reserve, and its decisions are subject to veto by the federal bank regulators.
