Even so, as crowds swarm the mummy-less exhibition of treasures of the predictably famous King Tut at the Discovery Times Square Exposition, Melvin the Mummy has a good story to tell.
If this were the major leagues, their style might be viewed as less than exhibition of fun and more a violation of the unwritten rules of baseball etiquette.
Damien Hirst's latest extravaganza 25 years of spot paintings on view simultaneously at all 11 Gagosian galleries around the world is at once far more and far less than an exhibition of artwork by Mr Hirst.
But the gallery plunged bravely ahead, and this week its new, eight-story Foster + Partners-designed edifice opened with a less-than-dazzling exhibition of paintings by the Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca.
Weegee's photographs from the last two decades of his life are less well known, but this exhibition of nearly 90, the largest yet, suggests that they, too, will endure.
But the idea of banning one of a small number of successful female rappers, while allowing the men to hang their testicles to the floor is nothing less than a mind-boggling exhibition of blatant sexism.
But a new exhibition of camera-less photography at the V&A proves this is not always the case.
Devoid of booths, this is less a fair than a collaborative exhibition of some 120 works that range through numerous mediums and about eight centuries.
The budget battles that are resuming now in Washington are likely to look less like a slugfest than an exhibition of rope-a-dope.
"Treasures of Catherine the Great" was less an exhibition than the first of a series of long-term, rotating displays, a kind of outstation of the Hermitage, in Somerset House, itself an attraction.
Bigotry – understood as a fervent and ostentatious exhibition of religiosity – is much less common than statistics suggest.
