If 2015 was the year of less, inspired by Marie Kondos life-changing tidiness phenomenon, 2016 is the year that the unabashedly cluttery, the pile-makers and the scrapbook-keepers, retaliate. Already, theres a roster of forthcoming books including Tim Harfords anticipated Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives devoted to the art of keeping rather than disposing. Which makes the New Museums latest show, a survey of artists whose works resulted from meticulous collecting habits, is especially timely.

The exhibition includes works from familiar names, including Vladimir Nabokov, whose commitment to collecting and documenting butterflies mightve been overshadowed by his contributions to literature, but is well known to fans of the writer. But the uniqueness of The Keeper and, arguably, of many of the New Museums recent shows, including its diverse and inclusive Triennial is that it features work by artists who are lesser-known, emerging or forgotten, placing them alongside those whose style has already been validated by critics.

I think that what the exhibition celebrates above all is difference and subjectivity, Natalie Bell, the shows assistant curator, told The Huffington Post.