On Saturday the museum celebrates the 40th anniversary of its arrival with "Marcel Duchamp: ?ant Donn?" Containing every known preparatory study for the piece (about 80) along with photographs of the work in Duchamp's studio, this show should function as the "Green Box" that Duchamp never got around to concocting for his bizarre masterpiece.
Mr. Blier, a pianist and the artistic director of the New York Festival of Song, has revived the original French lyrics, written a seductive piano accompaniment and recruited the baritone John Brancy, whose layered reading of the piece at a preparatory session in Mr. Blier's Manhattan apartment late last month convinced all concerned that it could hold its own in a rarefied program of art songs.
The book's large photographs make her designs look like art pieces, and the inclusion of preparatory gouaches alongside images of the finished pieces allow "this book to be different from other jewelry books, and surprise people," she said.
The document review was purposive in nature and looked at 19 local policy documents, reports of government and university planning meetings, preparatory studies, and published opinion pieces that reflected on the development of the clinical associate strategy and were easily accessible.
Mr. Werner said that in creating each piece, "although I do preparatory drawings, there is a certain amount of discovery.
Besides the large outdoor pieces, the show includes preparatory drawings, models, prints and smaller sculptures in the gallery, including the stunning "Black Sun" (1980), a mesmerizing hollow disk with a smooth black finish.
Littering the floor around Mr. Sargsyan's figures are bits and pieces of scrap paper, several preparatory sculptures of human faces and limbs, along with paper renditions of scissors and a tape dispenser.
He had worked on the piece for some nine years, making hundreds of preparatory drawings (two of which are at the Morgan).
Though "towards Osiris," composed in 2005, is a complete piece, as its title suggests, it was a preparatory sketch for Mr. Pintscher's 25-minute "Osiris," commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Chicago Symphony, which gave the New York premiere in 2008 under Pierre Boulez.
