Messy installations by a group called the Bruce High Quality Foundation coyly critique museum functions.
Perhaps most important, despite the evidence of the Modern's fastidious, patrician hand in the selection -- no messy installations, not much sex apart from a spectacular X-rated painting by Cecily Brown -- the show appears at a place known for its quirky, in-the-trenches, youth-friendly house style.
The cold, aesthetic perfection of Mr. Wurtz's aluminum-pan paintings is nicely balanced by some messy, goofy installations with glamorized circular domestic and industrial goods.
There were some big, messy, thinky installations here and there, but being in the Whitney Biennial is one thing; selling for twice the high estimate at Christie's is another.
Modern Art's New York debut of the 26-year-old Colombian artist Oscar Murillo was one highlight, with a messy, sprawling installation that could have felt overblown boxed in by a traditional art fair booth.
Lin Shih Pao incorporates 1,000 pairs of blue jeans into a messy and expansive installation of collage and assemblage.
Snapshots of the animals that prowl around Mark Dion's house in the Pennsylvania countryside can be perused on the walls of his cozy, and messy, office, an installation titled "Bureau of Remote Wildlife Surveillance".
The new museum's layout is open-ended, with a double-height, column-free space set aside on the reinforced second floor for contemporary art — its sheets of warped steel, its mountains of bricks or tin cans or lavender Teddy bears, its mazy installations and messy assemblages.
** The new museum's layout is open-ended, with a double-height, column-free space set aside on the reinforced second floor for contemporary art — its sheets of warped steel, its mountains of bricks or tin cans or lavender Teddy bears, its mazy installations and messy assemblages.
Mr. Welch's living installation — ludicrous, messy, frustrating and funny — was a visual reduction of the festival's theme of cross-pollination.
This show, her first in New York in four years, includes some of Ms. Eisenman's comically perverse works on paper and a messy mock-thrift shop installation, but it is mainly devoted to her paintings, which, though made with earnest care, are technically rudimentary and not very funny.
