The American effort, revealed in dozens of interviews, planning documents and classified diplomatic cables obtained by The New York Times, ranges in scale, cost and sophistication.
It may also go some way toward explaining how her work, which ranges in scale from near-miniature to monumental, and at times has anticipated contemporary art practices by decades, has long slipped through the art world's cracks.
AVAM's collection ranges in scale and tenor from a 10-foot mirror-plated sculpture of the drag icon Divine to "Recovery," a moving self-portrait of an anonymous British mental patient that was carved from an apple tree trunk before he committed suicide in his 30s.
It ranges in scale from Karen Ciaramella's enormous, cloudlike objects made of dense accretions of thick, white scoured wool, some of them with knotted appendages that flow onto the floor, to Noriko Takamiya's "Untitled #3" (1997), a delicate, knotted object made of strips of ramie.
It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic.
In this method, genes considered by the software to have not changed significantly were discarded from the data set based on the change p-value, which ranges in scale from 0.0 to 1.0.
