The Thing Quarterly: Issue 22: Godfather of conceptual art, John Baldessari reimagines the pillowcase

The Thing Quarterly: Issue 22


John Baldessari, the prolific visual artist and living legend hailing from southern California, has left nary a medium untouched—painting, photography, printmaking, video, sculpture, installation and more—in his quest to find beauty, drama and art in the…

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The Thing Quarterly: Issue 20: An exclusive preview of Tauba Auerbach’s conceptual wall-clock for the object-based periodical

The Thing Quarterly: Issue 20


San Francisco-based conceptual publication The Thing Quarterly commissions artists, writers and other creative types to create a useful everyday object that incorporates text, sending epistolary shower curtains, onion cutting boards and more to subscribers four times a year. For its…

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The Thing Quarterly Issue 19 by David Shrigley: In-flight amusement and a leather travel wallet from the beloved British illustrator

The Thing Quarterly Issue 19 by David Shrigley


Illustrator David Shrigley may not be fond of going anywhere that’s “more than two hours on a plane,” but he is—luckily for all of us—a big fan of humor, and…

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The Thing Quarterly: Issue 18: Mike Mills presents a 2013 calendar inspired by the age of punk

The Thing Quarterly: Issue 18

For the 18th installment of The Thing Quarterly, the object-based periodical relied on Mike Mills to create a 2013 pocket calendar. Mills, a filmmaker and visual artist, has presented work at Sundance Film Festival and as part of MoMA’s New Directors New Films series, and is perhaps best known…

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