There are moments when one wishes that Updike had gone beyond the scope of the exhibition on view.
And the scope of this exhibition is so huge, from curtains to cars, that more questions are raised than answered.
When foreign galleries understood the scope of the exhibition they were happy to lend their star turns.
The limited size is nonetheless a powerful discipline in defining the scope of any exhibition we mount.
In 2006 the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) across town was criticised for the limited scope of an exhibition on the Middle East, "Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking".
Mr. Ballengée pushes the scope of the exhibition beyond a site-specific case study with large, X-ray-like photographs of dead birds, some altered genetically to be born wingless, and with excerpts from a second series of pictures of frogs with misshapen or missing limbs, begun in 1996.
The video also shows the scope of the exhibition.
Curating has become an overused word, but perhaps dance could take courage from the variety and scope of art exhibitions – such as the current Francis Bacon show, which hangs that painter's work alongside the old masters who inspired it.
The very scope of the Pompidou exhibition makes it unusual.
"It best reflects the giant scope of this international exhibition," Mr. Gioni said, "the impossibility of capturing the sheer enormity of the art world today".
Preserved in the Louvre, the sketch unfortunately falls outside the scope of the British Museum exhibition, limited to the institution's belongings obviously for financial reasons.
