"The way I see it, we're in transition," and he has a 10-foot-long canvas to illustrate the point.
On the seven-foot-long canvas, Renée Luzon, 11, of Brooklyn, painted a big red heart pierced with a cross.
Whoever paid £2,040 for the 91-centimeter-long canvas, about 36 inches, must have some idea about the artist's identity and/or the site.
In October an eight-foot-long canvas frieze stenciled with overlapping diamond patterns brought $40,625 at a Doyle New York auction.
"We stretched this yesterday," Mr. Sobel said, pointing to a 16-foot-long canvas Still had painted in 1951, around the time he began cutting his ties to galleries, then museums, then the rest of the art world.
The indisputable star of the exhibition is Schutz's riotous "Building the Boat While Sailing" (click on the above image to expand), a thirteen-foot-long canvas that lifts its composition from Gericault's Romantic masterpiece "The Raft of the Medusa".
On one recent afternoon, four artists worked by hand on a 32-foot-long canvas, while two others used a silkscreen process to prepare smaller panels for hand-finishing.
Inside the three-level space, visitors will find installations and paintings like Andy Piedilato's "Antagonist," a more than 20-foot-long canvas of a black form in a swirling sea of hatch marks — a whale, perhaps, or is it a submarine?
In Tashkent I met the artist Gayrat Ibragimov, who is creating cutting-edge video art and graphic art that reflects Central Asia, and his father, Lekim, who painted the 66 metre-long canvas One Thousand Angels and One Painting, which has toured the world.
