We chatted with him about what it was like to curate a photography exhibition whose exhibits were being beamed in live from mobile phones strewn across the world.
By a surreal coincidence, the Frick Collection in New York opened an exhibition of 17th-century Dutch art last year, whose exhibits include The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius, on the very day Donna Tartt published her novel The Goldfinch, which features the Fabritius painting.
Mr. Koizumi visited a museum whose exhibits document the death by torture of opponents of Japan's annexation of the country, which lasted from 1910 to 1945.
Last year, for example, a photographer beat, collectively, an embroiderer, a painter who had been accused of plagiarism and an artist whose exhibit was, literally, a pile of rubbish.
Black To Comm is more like an abandoned museum of late-twentieth-century instruments whose exhibits are still running at half power.
Officials have yet to confirm if he will also spend time at the peace memorial museum, whose exhibits include clothes and other possessions belonging to those who died.
Zwirner will take a work by Yutaka Sone, whose exhibit at the gallery closes this week, and something by Dan Flavin, whose estate Zwirner represents.
Lauren Anker, an artist whose exhibit will shelter a half-dozen spiny-tailed monitors, is rendering the arid habitat in northern Australia that they prefer.
Among the other sites are Holocaust centers in Seattle Farmington Hillss, Mich.; Sonoma State University in California, whose exhibit was created by an Auschwitz survivor who attended school with Anne; and Boise, Idaho, whose statue of Anne was vandalized by a white supremacist group.
On the second day of the war in Iraq, we visited the Museum of the Revolution, whose exhibits chronicle successive Vietnamese struggles against the Chinese, the Japanese, the French, the Americans and "the American-puppet machine".
