Tara Donovan's installations are of this world, but are far from ordinary. Most of her assemblages are made from the fringes of cubical desk organizers or Chevy toolboxes: pencils, styrofoam coffee cups, stick pins, toothpicks, fishing wire, shattered glass, roofing felt, and electrical wire.

Robert Ryman's mature works are achievements of endurance. Since the mid-fifties, he has slowly experimented with painting directed outside the bounds of illusionistic depiction, countering Abstract Expressionist tenets of push-pull composition, atmospheric effect, and virtual space. Ryman's more literal practice of stressing materials as materials has continued to the present.

Robert Ryman's mature works are achievements of endurance. Since the mid-fifties, he has slowly experimented with painting directed outside the bounds of illusionistic depiction, countering Abstract Expressionist tenets of push-pull composition, atmospheric effect, and virtual space. Ryman's more literal practice of stressing materials as materials has continued to the present.

Fiona Tan's current project Correction and Correctional Institutions, on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, consists of six double-sided projection screens arranged in a circle around a group of benches. The portraits are shot from the knees up with approximately three hundred images looped in a montage, unconnected by any narrative.