M.A.D. NYC is now showing AGAINST THE GRAIN: Wood in Contemporary Art,Craft, & Design, a multi-artist exhibit offering over 90 objects, furniture, sculpture and installations by 57 artists and designers who are bringing fresh creative energies and new postmodernist conceptual and technical strategies to woodworking. Recent works on display include Ai Wei Wei's 2008 "Grapes, Qing Dynasty", Wendell Castle's "Ghost", and "Thonet #18" by Matthias Pleissnig.