This show of furniture, paintings and decorative objects from the American neo-Classical period of 1810-40 has enough treasures to serve as a textbook of the era.
This show of beautiful objects, useful objects and objects that manage to be both makes no pretense of being an overview of American design.
It's an uneven affair - a show of discrete objects relating to domesticity, which might be shown anywhere, but it also features a couple of installations in which particular rooms are transformed.
Another was "The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership, " a larger show of small objects organized at Princeton University last winter.
The show of ordinary objects, "Humble Masterpieces," takes up a single case.
In 1996, he organized "Rings: Five Passions in World Art," a $3.2 million show of objects from 44 countries for the Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Now, for a change of pace, Mr. Kim presents "A Supposition," a step-by-step show of objects with a story line, sort of.
A show of jewelry, hand-painted clothing, garden ornaments and decorative objects continues through Dec. 31.
The most interesting thing in this inchoate show of videos, collages, books and other objects by a poet manque/conceptual artist is a whole-wall video projection of a burning house (Johnson).
The fact is, there's a fatal contradiction between this show of free-floating architectural objects and the sensibility of the architect it ostensibly honors.
