Occupying the cloister of the church of Sant'Eustorgio, it houses the remarkable collection of artworks and liturgical objects amassed by the parishes of the Milanese province.
But again I would argue that these assemblages don't qualify as true collections, objects amassed not for the performance conveyed in the medium but rather for the thing itself: blue-and-white pottery because it is blue-and-white pottery; a rock or a leaf from every hike along the Appalachian Trail; every Barbie outfit, still in its original packaging.
Set on a cliff overlooki ng the Pacific Ocean, the house's character is defined by the objects that Neruda amassed from Asia, Africa and Europe.
For some, collecting goes from hobby to holy quest, and the collector comes to feel divinely chosen by providence to amass the objects he seeks.
The centerpiece of the series will be "Doris Duke's Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art," a traveling exhibition of the Islamic art and decorative objects collection amassed by tobacco heiress Doris Duke beginning in the 1930s.
"It's an extremely complicated object, not just the sculpture itself, but trying to understand what all the objects inside exactly are and what they mean together has been a very complex process, and so it's really taken until now" to amass the necessary technical, institutional, and human resources in one place to study it properly, said Saunders.
After a brief, passionate love affair with a distant cousin named Fusun, the narrator, Kemal, obsessively amasses objects that evoke their relationship in 1970s Istanbul.
Click the objects menu and place object.
"After a few short years," the text notes, many families amass more objects "than their houses can hold".
The winner is the one who amasses the most seeds.
Finally, and troublingly, they amass violent objects: swords, staffs and other weapons.
