Texts

Robert Delford Brown
Meat Show
(by special arrangement with Sioux City Packing Corp.)
1964
lithograph (exhibition flyer)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Printmaker
No Draft - Don't Enlist - Refuse To Kill
ca. 1969
offset lithograph (poster)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Anonymous Printmaker
Shopping Bag from Marboro Books, New York
ca. 1970
offset print on paper bag
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

attributed to Benedetto Bordone
Poliphilo greeted by Philtronia
1499
woodcut and letterpress
(from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of Francesco Colonna
published by Aldus Manutius in Venice)
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Kristen Morgin
Monopoly
2007
painted clay
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Steven Shearer
I know all about broken dreams
1994
acrylic on canvas
Museum London, Ontario

Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner - Twenty Works
1980
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ivan Chermayeff
The Invisible City
(airport luggage tags)
1972
offset-lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Philippe Apeloig for Hermès
Shawl
(text pages of Fragments d'un Discours Amoureux by Roland Barthes)
2016
screenprinted cashmere and silk
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

León Ferrari
The Despair of the Outcasts in Hell
2005
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Adolph Gottlieb
Pictograph
1949
oil, tempera, gouache and casein on linen
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Robert Delford Brown
Another Map to Nevada
ca. 2000
printed map of Paris overwritten with markers
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

He Jianping
He Jianping - In Between
2012
screenprint (exhibition poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ray Johnson
Pen Pals
1969
collage and ink on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg: Projects for Monuments
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1967
lithograph (exhibition poster)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Peter Tyndall
Congratulations
1987
screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Duane Michals
Time is Such a Funny Thing
1992
gelatin silver print
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Time is Such a Funny Thing

Time is such a funny thing,

It's like a hole inside a ring,

    It's always now and never then.

But when I say it's now again,

    It's never now but always then.

We're always here and never there,

    But we go from here to there,

Then is here and here is there.

Should you think you're very tall,

    Next to a tree you're not at all

And if you think you're small,

    Beside a bee you're ten feet tall.

When we dream, we seem awake,

    But all along the dream was fake.

To me I'm "I" and never you,

You say you're "I" and also me,

    I know that's true, how can that be,

Since I'm not you, and you're not me. 

    Time is not what you might think,

        It is and isn't in a wink.

 

– Duane Michals