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Mike: What’s going to happen is installations are cranking everything up to eleven. Musicians, visual artists, trying to break it up so it isn’t the typical white wall, cement floor kind of gallery experience. It’s very important to kind of hit the reset button for people — to kind of wipe out whatever expectations that they have when they walk in. If there’s one thing that I’m trying to create here in this big, huge space is this feedback of information that’s going back and forth. An experience journey was that there was no way that this was going to be possible, but I didn’t know, so I just kind of like, do it. Experiential mind-altering fun. Like my dream of what my house would be like — like a fantasy of what it could be if you came over. Why don’t I meet you? We’ll have a cup of coffee. On top of a big, huge Tom Sachs sound system. We’ll play some music on that.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its 2012 inductees this morning, and Beastie Boys are among the artists who made the cut this year. Joining Beastie Boys in the 2012 class will be Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Donovan (Adam Horovitz's former father-in-law), Laura Nyro, The Faces, Freddie King, Don Kirshner, Cosimo Matassa, Tom Dowd, and Glyn Johns.

The induction ceremony will take place in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 14. Tickets for the ceremony will go on sale to the public on December 17 at Rockhall.com.