If you walk into the Bass Museum of Art and think you're seeing things -- treehouses on the ground floor! -- relax and enjoy. They're part of the exhibition Simon Starling: Inverted Retrograde Theme, USA (House for a Songbird), which features a large-scale installation and two photographs by conceptual British artist Starling, who has pinned to the ceiling two scale models of prefabricated single-family houses propped on tree branches. The tree houses are Starling's interpretation of homes outside San Juan, Puerto Rico, built in the 1960s as part of a controversial development financed by the Rockefeller Foundation. With his artwork, Starling reflects on the complexity of realizing utopian aspirations in the modern world.

Simon Starling runs through Sept. 13 at the Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach; $8 general, $6 seniors and students, free to Bass members; 305-673-7062 or www.bassmuseum.org.

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