Chavannes and Fielding (left) and Artschwager   (Photo: Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art; courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art and © Richart Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York )

4. Behind the Scenes
Untitled, Richard Artschwager (1994) and Bubble Wrap, Marc A. Chavannes and Alfred W. Fielding (1960)
Yes, the pairing (of Artschwager’s sculptural echo of an art-handler’s crate with a plain old piece of packing material) is pretty jokey, but it couldn’t happen in any other museum. “The MoMA has in its collection a twelve-by-twelve-inch piece of bubble wrap from the sixties, by the people who actually designed bubble wrap. How incredible is that?”