Category: art history
Chicago Instagram residency, days 4 & 5: Chicago flashback and my mood board
Joe Brainard at Tibor de Nagy
Peter and I took our bikes over the East River on the ferry yesterday, and ended up at the Joe Brainard show at the Tibor de Nagy gallery:




Moss, dimensions variable.
A ticket to Stalin’s monument
An admission ticket to an art installation called “Totalitarian Zone,” which was held inside the pedestal of what was once Stalin’s monument in Prague. Dated 18–31 October 1990. I’m pretty sure that’s the space shuttle.
There’s a lovely poster for the same event on the Facebook page of Linhart’s Foundation, which was one of the event’s producers. My thanks to the translator Alex Zucker for pointing the poster out to me.
If this image were included in an extra-illustrated binding of the novel Necessary Errors, it might follow page 177. (For an explanation of extra-illustration, click here.)