Ms. Jardin has also solicited items from better-known artists like the illustrator Graham Roumieu.

One of the world's better-known conceptual artists, she's been testing out different media ever since she put her oddball "Truisms" into bus stops in the 1970s.

It was also because it required such special talent to paint on vellum (calfskin) and ivory that better-known artists could not easily switch genres.

This second painter (Joe Andoe, a much better-known artist in what might be called early mid-career) chose a third, and so on.

Carlos Alfonzo and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, two better-known artists who died recently, lived here.

Downstairs at The Middle East, a 575 person capacity concert space that has hosted many better-known, national artists.

"We made a serious decision to include better-known artists, and I expect much better audiences."

It doesn't help that many of the better-known artists are frequently represented by weak work.

Even so, many better-known artists don't find it easy.

Cultural bureaucrats lead shadowy lives, lost behind the brilliance of better-known artists and directors.