Yetta Zimmerman's house may have been the most open-heartedly monochromatic structure in Brooklyn, if not in all of New York.

In this place you can go to a year's worth of dinner parties without hearing anyone quote an aperçu he first heard on Charlie Rose.

There is a range of themes and moods, and you can’t get much more slyly evil than in “Cloven Kingdom”; more sumptuous than “Arden Court”; more joyously and meditatively abandoned than “Esplanade”; or more goofy than “Diggity,” with its stageful of dogs and designs by Alex Katz.

The clown, the child of nature, without guile.