By contrast, the Tate, whose core collection numbers just 65,437 works, lent 1,109 objects last year.
Constantine said 1.5 million people had encountered a work from the collection last year, not counting the works lent to hospitals, universities and libraries.
Di Suvero designed a minimalist steeple, around which he and Petlin hung hundreds of small works lent by famous artists of the era, including Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Ad Reinhardt, Elaine de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Louise Nevelson, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Leon Golub.
Yet in many ways, Mr. Shaham is at his most persuasive in the short works, lending them apt seriousness without neglecting their surface beauty.
Besides, the mere fact that a novelist's works lend themselves to trivial pursuits is bound to make his ultimate seriousness suspect.
When transferred to canvas, the texture and residue left behind from the analog processes used to create the works lend a painterly quality that allows for the two series to merge in a cohesive manner.
Work No 200 - the balloons - is wonderful not only because the balloons are so frivolous (surely we knew this), but because the work lends personality to air.
Borrowing ideas from old masters such as Velázquez and Vermeer, his work lends a dignity to the sometimes prosaic lives of his subjects.
This lost work lends authenticity to the familiar literary device of presenting the hero through the eyes of the lower-status companion who knows him best.
Sniper bullets miss every time, as they do in every action film, but here the hand-held camera work lends a realistic feel.
