Enter Lucy Sparrow, 29, an ex-stripper from Bath who sews her art out of felt and is about to turn a corner of London's Soho into a seedy-sounding but actually incredibly clever sex shop installation filled with hundreds of dildos, porn mags, S&M equipment and even STIs in sweetie jars.
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.
There are trashed flags and ticking clocks everywhere, along with a whole variety of shop installations – capitalism in microcosm.
Its imposing achievement in these new shop installations, and in at least two tenement tours I have taken, is that the daily lives become far more important than any arguments.
At the opening of one project, a reporter overheard one Municipal Art Society official commenting on SHoP's installation design.
WEEKEND An exhibition review on Feb. 8 about the "Shop Life" installation at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in Manhattan referred incorrectly to the number of immigrants admitted to the United States since 2000.
For the tote launch, Eine even painted over the windows of her Sloane Street shop, an installation which had, alas, been removed by the time he won the ultimate street art accolade: the patronage of a Conservative prime minister.
His chaotic, head-shop-like installation pieces and obstreperous performance works may make his influences and references clearer: Schwitters's Merzbau environments, Beuys's self-mythologizing, the neo-Expressionists' obsession with Germany's Nazi past, and the gory, sex-charged antics of the Viennese Actionists.
Saul Ostrow, dean of the institute's fine arts program, wrote a catalog essay that places Mr. Maltz's shopping center installations in the company of earthworks like Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty," which emerges and re-emerges according to the water level in the Great Salt Lake.
The move required many improvements to the plant and the surrounding area, including the establishment of new assembly shops, the installation of new machinery and tooling, the re-training of the workforce, and the building of a new airfield.
