The surfaces are all but covered with sundry objects, duplications, stacks and piles.
The largest of these is "Re-Creation/Recreation: Fun With Found Objects," an eclectic survey of 175 sculptures, games, signs, instruments and sundry objects made from recycled materials.
Anyone attempting to display together the paintings, sculpture and sundry objects of these European nations under the banner "Christian Art" or simply "Christianity" would risk being shown the door on the museum scene as in the auction arena.
The exhibit is part of Transcultural New Jersey, a statewide arts initiative that began last December, and includes 35 contemporary photographs by James Abbott and Tony Velez, a Hindu altar and sundry objects that document ethnically diverse religious sites from Newark to Bridgeton.
Further complicating the collection of what were once regarded as primitive tribal body parts was--and remains--the trafficking and profiteering in decorated or tattooed femurs, skulls, talismans and sundry sacred objects.
Most are brightly painted; many make ingenious use of foil pans, straw hats or sundry other found objects and materials.
Nor would it be conceivable to have, in one auction, a set of watercolors done by Napoleon's favorite architect followed by an early 17th-century painting considered to be the work of Ribera tossed amid flea market level pictures before switching to objects and sundry pieces of furniture, some fine, others worthless pastiches.
The basis of the imitations, he tells us, is a fine, pure and white glass composition, called Stress, after its inventor, STRASS, of Strasburgh, who attained the object of sundry experiments by achieving perfect imitations of the "real" gems in the three particulars of hardness, specific gravity and refraction of light.
Describing his state in Act IV, Scene 1, he says, "it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness".
The object is adorned with garters and sundry fasteners and is edged with actual metal teeth of a zipper.
Also since the '70s, Mr. Marclay has put found images, objects and language, as well as other performers, to wide-ranging musical use, cross-fertilizing sundry art forms, expanding the boundaries of collage and enriching the sound -- and look -- of music as he goes.
