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Nauman describes his place in art this way:

"I think that it's not knowing what's coming or what art is supposed to be or how you're supposed to go about being an artist that keeps it interesting. It's going into the studio and finding out what seems to be available or not. It's almost, in a sense, a philosophical kind of quest, but on the other hand the reason I became an artist was because I like to make things. Sometimes they help each other out, and sometimes they get in each other's way."

He is especially noted for taking ordinary objects and, by placing them in a different context, urging viewers to think about them in a different way - a very Duchampian ideal.

"He's the perfect post-Duchamp artist," said Taylor, the modern-art curator. "He a conceptual artist, but he escapes these categories we like to put artists in."

The selection comes with about $460,000 from the State Department, but more is needed. "We will be raising some money to do it, and exactly how much more is not clear until we see the final shape," d'Harnoncourt said. Costs can run as high as $1 million.