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If, like me, you're always fiddling with your hair, then an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art is just the thing. Perception Restrained, part of its Artist's Choice series, features make-up mirrors that can be used to fix errant strands during a hard afternoon's viewing.
Useful as they may be, the mirrors aren't there for personal grooming. Angle them towards the ceiling and they reflect a television show or movie from a bank of concealed monitors.
The mirrors are part of an attempt to get visitors to appreciate MoMA's vast collection of art in a different way. Curators spend plenty of time planning the arrangement of works. The old-fashioned way is to position them chronologically, so that a viewer can trace the gradual shift of a Wassily Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock from figurative to abstract.
A more recent technique, popularised by London's Tate Modern, is to arrange works by theme. A recent MoMA show about Dada grouped works by cities, rather than the years in which the works were made. This thematic approach shows how works from different times relate to each other.
Perception Restrained, designed and curated by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, is a radically different way of exhibiting art. Working from the premise that most art museums are too big for the general viewer to get around in one go, they have shrunk the whole of MoMA into one small room.
