As for the money-meal installation, "It was quite consumed," Mr. Frick said, which is art-speak for, "The guests licked the plates".
The artist Susan Cianciolo, left, closed Run Restaurant (an art installation that served meals) and moved on to Run Home, an offshoot of her Run Store (an art installation that sold things).
American officials were permitted to see the crew for a second time today -- this time with no Chinese officials present -- and described them as healthy and well cared for, and were receiving catered meals from outside the military installation where they have been detained.
Another tough piece is Marion Wilson's installation about the final meals ordered and eaten by condemned death-row inmates.
In New York, it opened with the installation artist Rirkrit Tiravanija cooking a meal, while Charlotte Gainsbourg, Ariel Pink and punk duo No Age performed.
You can get the Nigella Quick Collection app for your iPad, which the launch PR said "curates" her meals, as though they were canvases or installation pieces.
Artist David Rife is working with Thai restaurant Pok Pok to create a sound and image installation to go along with Pok Pok's meal on the weekend of December 8.
There is one supplement: an installation of a table and chairs, set for an extravagant meal, in the second room.
In the launch year a home economist was present at the installation of every microwave - and even helped to cook the first meal in it.
A decree by the education ministry prohibits "the use of fireworks, festive meals, gift-giving and raising money" over new year as well as "the installation of a Christmas tree either living (felled wood) or artificial" in schools and universities.
Recent events have included a film installation from Philipp Geist, in which underwater scenes are projected on one wall while Mr. Krauss serves a meal made exclusively with ingredients from different bodies of water, and a modern Indonesian meal served within a traditional wooden longhouse built in the space by the Indonesian artist Yudi Noor.
