The press release, an overstuffed dissertation on the art of the list, attempts to intellectualize the collection’s chaotic sprawl. Umberto Eco is invoked, as if name-dropping a celebrated semiotician ...

A dizzying display of made-by-hand opulence that had the crowds speechless, breathless, and astounded. He quoted Umberto Eco, the Italian philosopher, semiotician and medievalist, and the power of the ...