A useful piece of information before we start: The artist Edouard Levé is also a writer and has published a collection of 533 projects entitled Oeuvres (P.O.L., 2003), beginning: “I. A book describes the works an author has thought of but has not produced.” Which is to say a miscellaneous list of possible paintings, videos, and performances; architectural models cut up into sections, crazy people walking in the street filmed from behind, a museum in which all the paintings are covered in black fabric, a painter who recopies the abstract canvases made by monkeys, and so on. In his book, Levé