The Mesopotamian exhibition and the others in adjacent galleries are only the public face of the Oriental Institute.

The couple, both of whom are artists, sometimes display their works in the adjacent gallery.

"Yvonne," an ambitious autobiographical collage of still and moving video images projected on a wall in an adjacent gallery, is new this year.

In an adjacent gallery, photographs of Ms. Maiolino's early performance pieces slide by on a video monitor.

She took time out to gaze for a moment at one of the more than 100 photographs hanging in an adjacent gallery.

In an adjacent gallery, which is darkened, are two illuminated artist books and a new two-channel video projection on a 25-foot-long scrim.

The adjacent galleries are devoted to an extensive chronological survey.

In an adjacent gallery, a clever grouping reflecting 40 years focuses on different ways of considering the classical nude as an object of desire.

There is a quick change of mood in the adjacent gallery that displays orientation materials.

In adjacent galleries are a few African ceramics, most prominently three large 20th-century Senufo storage jars.