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If you ever take the NYC Subway, you have probably seen the hilarious and extremely adorable ads for Casper mattresses and bedding, because they are all over the inside of the train cars. If you are not sure if you have seen them, they look like this:
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Pink Dinosaur Toy: Check
Silver Mannequin Foot: Check
White Rubber Duck: Check
Pair of Sneakers Far in the Background: Check
Coral Forest, Installation View (All Photos By Gail)
Crochet Coral Reef: Toxic Seas celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Crochet Coral Reef (2005–present), an ongoing project by sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim and their Los Angeles–based organization, the Institute For Figuring. Mixing crocheted yarn with plastic trash, the work fuses mathematics, marine biology, feminist art practices, and craft to produce large-scale coralline landscapes, both beautiful and blighted. At once figurative, collaborative, worldly, and dispersed, the Crochet Coral Reef offers a tender response to the dual calamities facing marine life: climate change and plastic trash.
Continue reading Crochet Coral Reef, Toxic Seas at The Museum of Arts and Design
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How much fun would it be to see this paint hanging in a Red Lobster Restaurant? I bet it would cause a few double-takes by the patronage. Fuck This Restaurant by Italian artist Giulia Maglionico sells for $2,300 and is available for purchase from Galleria Pananti in Florence, Italy.
Photographed at The Affordable Art Fair NY in September, 2016.
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The A to Z Living Unit (1993) designed by Andrea Zittel (B. 1965) is fabricated from Steel and Wood, and is shown here with the following accessories:
Two mirrors, four hangers, sweater, towel, soap container, calendar, filing cabinet, pencils, two notepads, folding seat, folding bed, four glass jars, two ceramic cups, two glasses, two ceramic bowls, digital clock, electric lightning system, hot plate, pot, and toaster oven. Continue reading Eye On Design: A to Z 1993 Living Unit By Andrea Zittel