Her goal, experts say, is to assemble eclectic works of 19th- and 20th-century artists ranging from Renoir to Baselitz.

Below, the demented nonwork continued: 'bots assembled Y-energy works and then smashed them against misaligned cones; cone shells rolled across the floor; forklifts stacked air.

Turtle Bay built its beginning list basically by assembling works that the three editors had previously signed up at Random House.

The show assembled works by a selection of modern and contemporary painters, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann and Jackson Pollock.

The gallery has assembled works by three artists who are bound to touch a number of raw nerves.

Gallery Roll Calls The most automatic group show is the in-house effort, which assembles works by all or some of a gallery's artists but makes no larger point.

The Studio Museum show takes a different tack, assembling stronger works and also removing Lam's art from the vacuum of theory.

One success story is the formerly homeless artist Curtis Cuffie, who assembles works of street detritus.

It is unfortunate that a teacher's time is spent assembling such elaborate works of art.

Continuing through Jan. 16, the exhibition, "After the Wall," at the Moderna Museet, assembles works by 140 artists from 22 countries.