For several years the artist collected more than 200 advertising icons from leaflets and newspapers focusing exclusively on animal motifs.

Food outlets known as the Restaurants of the Heart mobilize artists to collect money through shows or concerts.

The artist collected the leaves near Chernobyl in the Ukraine and she posits that their permutations represent deformities caused by exposure to radiation.

In fact, they are made from samples of human hair that the artist has collected from around the world and painstakingly glued together.

The drawings, mostly in pencil on hotel stationery that the artist collected in his travels, look like off-the-cuff sketches at first.

It will feature about 170 vintage Los Angeles streetlights that the artist has been collecting over the years.

The artist collects photographs of flowers from magazines, seed catalogs and old garden books.

Many artists in Paris who once, like George Orwell, did such jobs to survive now collect the R.M.I. instead.

Or the artist will deliver his work in person and collect his share of the money for works sold in the meantime.

Along with 75 of his still pictures, this show will present objects, scrapbooks, movie props and other materials that the artist has collected.