THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: October 14, 2005
"Do You Like Stuff?" is various and understatedly humorous. Exemplifying a growing trend in art about eBay, Barb Choit presents a surprisingly interesting photographic archive of banal things that have been put up for auction on eBay. David Adamo has installed a forensic study table documenting his surveillance of an acquaintance named Macgregor. Frank Olive's "Useful Things" presents 100 cheap items, including toothpaste, tape and a pencil; he invites you to take one free.
Expanding the concept of stuff, four thin books by Beth Howe narrate her brief investigations of apparently random subjects following an eccentric, self-prescribed procedure, and Mike Bouchet presents a computer on which the scripts of more than 100 Hollywood movies continuously scroll. KEN JOHNSON
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