How Darren Bader Makes a Show, Including Bidding On Amy Winehouse’s Unwanted Weight Machine

To spend a few minutes with the staff at the New York location of Matthew Brown Gallery these days, talking about how the current show, Darren Bader’s “Youth,” came together, is to be regaled with tales that sound too unlikely to be true. That’s the way it often goes with the New York conceptual artist, whose works explore truly absurd territory. They may seem like jokes, but at least to me, they often open up the mind to a sense of wonder that leaves them resonating far