(‘‘I guess he did some outdoor things, because there’s an air gun as part of this installation,’’ Norah Stone says, a little perplexed.) The couple considers the organic, if rancid, aspect of the piece a profound part of its meaning. The work has, Norman says, ‘‘the presence of Jason,’’ who lived hard and died suddenly in 2006. His art is a specter slyly haunting a room rather than occupying it; with Bader, one thinks more of the mind creating the work than of any particular object. Andrew Ong, who has designed a number of commercial galleries, owns Bader’s ‘‘French horn with/and guacamole (or other ‘sauce’),’’ which is a French horn filled with guacamole.

Source: New York Times September 22, 2017 15:56 UTC