Letter from cartoonist Alfred Joseph Frueh to his wife Giuliette Fanciulli, sent on Jan. 10th, 1913.
The letter opens up to form a model of a gallery hung with paintings. Frueh made this model to inform his wife about the details of a specific art gallery before her visit.
Collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
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Installation views of Manfred Pernice‘s ‘Tutti’ at Kunstverein Salzburg (2010)
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The New York Five, in 1972, dressed as their own favourite buildings, a nod to this famous picture from 1931.
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Bob Verbruggen, from the series/book ‘Morgen is alles anders’ (Everything will be different tomorrow) (2006)
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Barbara Bloom, ‘Best of Vermeer’ (1991)
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Philippe Decrauzat installation in Kunsthaus Zürich (2009)
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Lennart Lahuis, ‘Dis-penser (Study I)’ (2014)
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Thomas Rentmeister, untitled (2013)
Chicken wire and Nutella.
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Yona Friedman, from the ‘Ville Spatiale’ series (1959)
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Koo Jeong A, untitled (2011)
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Also tagged action, architecture, blank, brands, cigarettes, DIY, empty, filters, found, fuckem, gesture, installation, Koo Jeong A, messy, minimalism, objects, packs, ramp, romance, smoking, south korean, stuff, the wild, trash, unknown, wall, white
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