penetralia

The main arc of the New Museum show, on view through Jan. 20, is from early assemblages like “Au Naturel” to the distinctive 2010 “Penetralia” series, made with Mr. Simmons, which involves pieces of wood and rock found around their Suffolk house.

Like Kahn’s buildings, too, Lesser’s book has its penetralia, core elements to which one is only gradually led.

I think he means that unusual words, such as “Bessarabian” and “penetralia,” tend to place him in an unfamiliar environment, in which his sense of self becomes more vivid.

I think he means that unusual words, such as “Bessarabian” and “penetralia,” tend to place him in an unfamiliar environment, in which his sense of self becomes more vivid.

It was during this “magical time” that Lucas began to make “Penetralia”: plaster casts of phalluses of varying sizes, sometimes emerging from, morphing into or coexisting with natural forms, like wands or trunks or flints.