My favorite pavilion at last year's Venice Biennale was the Korean one—mostly because the work inside had a wit and playfulness that came as a relief after all the nod- and hmm-inducing stuff around it. A black cube inside featured a small number of bright white-spotlighted skeletons that resembled a dinosaur exhibit for kids—the difference being that these were the bones of Wile E. Coyote, Tom & Jerry, and other American animation icons. It was jarring, amusing, and totally bizarre.

Nine months later, Hyungkoo Lee (the artist responsible) has shipped those cartoonish skeletons to America, added some new work, and cloned the black walls-and-spotlight setup of the pavilion, all for New York's gargantuan Arario Gallery. And this June, he'll continue with his subversively witty work at Art Basel—which is just like Art Basel Miami Beach without Paris Hilton or any of the fun parties. He's also planning another gimmick: One of the cartoon skeletons is already on loan to the boffins at Basel's Natural History Museum, and they're using their dinosaur-reconstructing techniques to "re-create" an animal from those conceptual innards. Expect a post-Chernobyl-like creature—but produced with typical Swiss precision.
Hyungkoo Lee solo show, through Saturday, Arario Gallery New York, 521 West 25th St., (212) 206-2760, ararionewyork.com