They do it too

It's not just us Brits who are convinced that any product of the artistic mind is good enough, the Yanks do it too.

This important work from Keith A. Smith (someone who takes himself sufficiently seriously to both time and date his works, for all the world like my PC) is so important that it was thought worth a full page advertisement from the Silverstein Gallery in New York in the current issue of the NYRB.

The core of this particular creation is, we are told, a piece of mylar extracted from a copier, ironed onto a piece of brown paper, stitched onto a piece of green cloth. A 2:30pm, 21 November 1971 version of the sort of stuff old ladies used to do in craft groups in senior centres around the world. Perhaps Smith is a senior. Perhaps even in a Brownsville senior centre (gmaps 40.662887, -73.909268), perhaps the one in Mother Gaston Boulevard, whoever Mother Gaston might have been.

I was unable to find out what you would have to pay to have this particular work on your very own wall.

Alternatively one sometimes comes across such work in car booters and oxfam shops where one might pay as much as £1 or so.

PS: I have just found that gmaps, if you click on a subway station, tells you the train times. No idea who put them there or how accurate they are.