Friday, August 8, 2025

Shrigley Shirts




David Shrigley has designed a special edition t-shirt, made in a limited run exclusive to the Shrigshop in Copenhagen.

The shirts are not for sale. They are only available as part of a t-shirt exchange, and only available for in-person customers. Shirts should be clean, feature a graphic, pattern or logo and have some personal meaning (ie. not new). 

The Shrigley shirts are available in S, M, L, XL. Only one t-shirt can be exchanged per person
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Thursday, August 7, 2025

Walter De Maria | High Energy Bar















Walter De Maria
High Energy Bar 
Self-published, 1966
3.9 x 35.5 x 3.9
Open edition


The certificate that accompanies an edition helps the work retain its financial value. In the case of High Energy Bar, the certificate is necessary - according to the artist - to ensure its artistic value. 

It reads:

"This certifies that _______ is the owner of High Energy Bar number ____ of an infinite series. This certificate will be incorporated as part of the whole work of aet, to he known as the High Energy Unit. All High Energy Bars in order to be operative and authentic must be accompanied buy a properly executed certificate. Ownership of this High Energy Bar has been recorded in the archives of the artist."

Assuming the numbering is sequential, at least 80 copies were produced. In February 2020, an example was auctioned at Christies in London, fetching GBP 27 500, exceeding the upper end of the estimate by 53%. 

While searching for more information on this work I skimmed the only book I have on the artist and it's not in the index, and none of the photos illustrate it, but I did come across perhaps my favorite quote about the impetus to produce art:

"I kept wanting to say five things at once. That's the real reason you make art, I think, to say five or ten things at once, just like that."
- Walter De Maria





Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Andy Warhol








Andy Warhol was born on this day in 1928. 




Tuesday, August 5, 2025













Jonas Hafner
La Crimae-La Crime
Monchengladbach, Germany: Städtisches Museum, 1976
16 x 20.5 cm.
Edition of 330 numbered copies


Jonas Hafner studied with Joseph Beuys (the first artist in the legendary Städtisches Museum boxed catalogue series) at the Kunstakademie, and earned a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf. For his 1976 exhibition he examined the recently demolished Dominican Monastery on Herzogstraße in Düsseldorf. 

Built in 1890, the building was destroyed in the WWII air raids on Düsseldorf in 1942 and ’43. In the postwar period, the monastery church was restored and was re-consecrated on February 19, 1950. The building was demolished 22 years later, to make room for the new building of the expanding Westdeutsche Landesbank. 

The accompanying catalogue is a printed die-cut cardboard box containing 26 loose cards mostly with German text and image overlays,  three folded posters and a stamped wafer. 

La Crimae-La Crime is available for €95.00, here




Monday, August 4, 2025

Paul McCarthy












Paul McCarthy turns 80 today. 



Friday, August 1, 2025

Rafael Barreto-Rivera | Here it Has Rained





Rafael Barreto-Rivera
Here it Has Rained
Toronto, Canada: Underwhich Editions, 1978
[12] pp., 21.5 x 14 cm., staple-bound
Edition of 500


Here it Has Rained was published by Paul Dutton’s small press Underwhich Editions. Barreto-Rivera and Dutton were members of the Canadian sound poetry collective, along with bp Nichol and Steve McCaffery. The title was printed at the Coach House Press in Toronto and the cover was designed by their resident typographer Glenn Goluska. 





New and Neglected














Things have been on auto-pilot for a while now, but above are some recent arrivals or things I’ve been meaning to get to, and will soon, including works by or about: David Hammons, Daniel Johnston, Joshua Schwebel, Brian Eno, Patrick Lundeen, Jon Klassen, and Bonnie Marranca on Dick Higgins.