In "La Maison de Mezzo-Prezzo," the third section, gilded characters are auctioned as eccentric objects to music by Eva Crossman-Hecht.

Mr. Rezac, a Chicago sculptor, skillfully fashions eccentric objects that verge on Minimalism but make oblique connections to the real world.

Robert Gober's eccentric made-from-scratch objects constitute a kind of revised Americana.

Otherwise, the Brooklyn Museum's art and its trove of great-looking eccentric objects with fascinating stories behind them are well served, and so is the public.

Whether your goal is to satiate obsessive hobbyists or to amaze the unenlightened, these stores can supply some decidedly eccentric objects to sneak under the tree.

As such it is more impressive as an eccentric object than as a conventional painting.

Mr. Pendleton has always loved mixing bodies and myth, eclectic music and eccentric objects: umbrellas, skis, beach balls.

Here you can gain an in-depth exposure to widely practiced traditions yet be regularly jolted by eccentric one-of-a-kind objects.

For an hour she negotiated through the labyrinth of reference sources, emerging triumphantly empty-handed: there were no references in the published physics literature to an eccentric object retely like hers.

It is rather like staying with an eccentric aunt, surrounded by a lifetime's worth of equally eccentric objects.