Marcel Duchamp’s nearly 100 year-old Readymade idea of taking found objects and proclaiming them museum-worthy continues to reasonate. Ji Lee reversed the idea by recreating Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel tableau first, and then taking it to the streets of New York. Clever, funny, and why didn’t I think of this first?
Three tubular light bulbs bound together with silicone, and a cable meant to be wrapped around them (producing the illusion of holding the bulbs together) as many times as needed to suit the desired height. Linienlampe is a pendant light designed by the German design studio YEAYEA.
A portrait by Warhol, the cover of Time, and Thriller. In 1984, Michael Jackson was Pop King immortal.
With photos this refined (evoking Rothko, Stella and LeWitt, no less), Grant Hamilton has made a case for the lowly Polaroid being elevated to the ranks of high art. One can only hope he’s stockpiled lots of the soon-to-be obsolete film in his studio.
This isn’t a Wayne Thiebaud painting, but you’d be forgiven for thinking it is. That seems to be the point in Sharon Core’s photography, above. She painstakingly recreates the iconic sweet-shop images from Thiebaud’s paintings, below, and then immortalizes them in photographs.
The cover of the latest issue of Eye magazine, featuring a cropping of a highly ornamental type composition by Canadian typographer Marian Bantjes.
Carpets, happy to say, have finally caught up to furniture and housewares in their quest for graphic panache. The textile designer Madeleine Weinrib creates some of the most sophisticated, dazzlingly-colored, carpets around.
Ravishing calligraphy by Danas Paris.
It isn’t often that newspaper design catches my eye, but Ji Lee’s illustrations for the New York Times always make me look.
