"My America" was the ambitious theme Jacobs professed, hence an array of characters as varied as gallery owner Andrea Rosen, actress Christina Ricci, comedienne Sandra Bernhard, RuPaul's Drag Race alumnus Milk, Beth Ditto, and The Divine Miss M in a "Scream Queen" dress.
One of the surprises for regular museum visitors will undoubtedly be the highly varied forms the galleries and exhibition programs have taken since the museum first opened in rented offices on Fifth Avenue and then grew, on 53rd Street, into the shiny, streamlined version that the architects Edward Durell Stone and Philip Johnson helped create.
Vegetation varied from river-lining gallery forests of conifers, tree ferns, and ferns, to fern savannas with rare trees.
Mr. Turrell's Minimalist orchestrations of light, color and space in New York galleries have varied in effectiveness over the years; the larger of two installations on view here works wonderfully well.
The subjects are varied: At the Baudoin Lebon gallery, one of two themes is borrowed from the Institut Polonais, representing the contradictions of surrealistic/not surrealistic photos in Communist Poland, a nice little show in a charming old cellar.
Especially compelling is a large gallery devoted to his varied "minus objects," a slightly too-crowded sprawl of wildly heterogeneous sculptures.
The ceilings of the principal galleries vary in height from about five to forty feet, but there are passages and alcoves where an adult has to kneel or crawl.
The gallery had displayed paintings as varied as English landscapes by John Constable and modernistic scenes by Robert De Niro Sr., the actor's father, who died in 1993.
The gallery's art should be varied but have a driving theme behind your artistic decisions that attracts people to be repeat customers.
Much more successful is an elegantly varied selection of nine paintings in the skylighted gallery on the sixth floor.
