11.   Down the road, Phil Morgan, who creates porcelain pieces with a gorgeous crystalline glaze, will be holding his breath as he opens his kiln.

12.   For the Whitney Biennial this year, Yukinori Yanagi, a Japanese-born conceptual artist, created two pieces with the help of some ants.

13.   He has the ability to make you believe that he creates the piece at that moment.

14.   His unrealized aim, he said later, was to create theater pieces in the way that he composed ballets.

15.   In words and music, he has also created pieces protesting apartheid and the Vietnam War, and works dedicated to Anne Frank, Mother Teresa and Gandhi.

16.   Leather company John Carlisle has ridden the strong trend into spring by creating pieces with the lightest-weight leathers it could find.

17.   Matisse, a master of modeling in clay, created pieces that hold together as if by gravitational pull.

18.   Miss Marshall created the piece shortly after the death of Arthur Armijo, a leading dancer in her own company.

19.   Of special interest are the discussions of how the artists create their pieces.

20.   Or, more generically, she wanted to capture the informal activity of creating the piece, and put that into a performance.