Hedia Maron's witty projected video — of woods, a garden, a fiery sky — fills the arched back wall of the altar, giving the Danspace Project stage a newfound sense of dimension.
Across Fifth Avenue was a food cart, or "The Spermbar," a witty, disturbing project by the French visual artist Prune Nourry, in which lab technicians took orders from customers who checked off the traits they desired in a sperm donor.
Unlike his restaurant interiors, his beaded two-million-square-foot addition to the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn., the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, which doubles as the site of the Academy Awards, and his witty theater sets, this project does not glow or feature a sweeping staircase, though it does have a ramp.
Check out some of the project's witty examples below.
But, Ms. Witty and others said, the project might not have been realized without a financial endorsement from the state.
By 2012, Mr. Witty hopes to have a project in every poor country where Glaxo makes a profit, a list that includes places like Yemen, Sierra Leone and Nepal.
There were elegant glass-matte lightning bolts, an orange sun (an homage to Eliasson's Turbine Hall project), and a witty sequence in which four eggs — bubbles filled with dry ice — tumbled slowly, one after the other, into a sea of foam.
Vaucher shows me her studio, one wall dominated by the powerfully vulnerable face of one of her "children", and with a riot of paper cuttings strewn across the floor, waiting to leap into witty juxtaposition in her latest project: a conjunction of the work of German artist Max Ernst's 1934 graphic novel A Week Of Kindness and Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing's 1970 book Knots.
And this may explain why she consented to the problematic project of the "Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings".
I assume that the contrast between these worlds is meant to make witty contrasting use of the Bridge Project's bi-national cast of British and American performers.
