Cary Leibowitz | Kosher Hot Dog Yarmulke (Please Don't Forget Eleanor Roosevelt)

Cary Leibowitz

Kosher Hot Dog Yarmulke (Please Don't Forget Eleanor Roosevelt) 

New York City, USA: Self-published, 1995

20.3 cm. diameter

Edition size unknown

Stanley Brouwn | Send me a map of the city where you are living

Stanley Brouwn

Send me a map of the city where you are living

Copenhagen, Denmark: Self-published, 1970

7.1 x 10.1 cm.

Edition size unknown

A postcard soliciting maps from around the world, not dissimilar to the artist's This Way Brouwn project in which he invited passersby to sketch out quick provisional instructional maps which he then exhibited and published as 'drawings'. 

According to Harry Ruhe's Stanley Brouwn: A Chronology, cards were "send by Brouwn from Copenhagen to people and institutes all over the world."

A scarce piece of ephemera by an important and underrated artist, valued at upwards of a thousand dollars, depending on condition and provenance. 

George Maciunas | Ping Pong Rackets

 

Jean Dubuffet | Banque de l'Hourloupe-Cartes a jouer et a tirer

Jean Dubuffet

Banque de l'Hourloupe-Cartes a jouer et a tirer

London, UK:  Editions Alecto, 1967

52 pp., 19.7 x 5.7 cm., boxed loose leaves

Edition of 350 signed and numbered copies [+ 30 AP]

A boxed set of 52 playing cards. The work is still available from the publisher, here, but no price is listed. The work is typically valued at between $1000 and $1300 US, depending on condition. 

Michael Snow

 

Happy Birthday to Michael Snow, who turns 94 today. 

Veronica Ryan | Cocoa Passion

Veronica Ryan

Cocoa Passion 

Bristol, UK: Spike Island, 2021

14 x 6 x 6 cm.

Edition of 20 [+ 2 APs]

A sold-out edition of cast porcelain cocoa pods, produced on the occasion of Veronica Ryan’s exhibition Along a Spectrum at Spike Island, last year. 

Today it was announced that Ryan won the prestigious Turner Prize, which is valued at £25,000 (the runners up Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, and Sin Wai Kin will each receive £10,000). 

The Montserrat-born sculptor emigrated to the UK as a child in the 1950s. At age sixty-six, she is the oldest winner in the history of the Turner Prize, which began in 1984. 

Ryan was nominated for the Along a Spectrum exhibition at Spike Island.