Geoff Snack posted this unopened pair of Jenny Holzer panty hose to WrongAnswer this morning, and now they’re gone. Of all the artist-designed clothing editions in the 1993 AmFAR Art Object collaboration with Barneys, I think the Jenny Holzer panty hose are the most vulnerable.
You could wear the Robert Rauschenberg tie, or the blouse with Richard Prince’s joke embroidered on the cuff—”My parents kept me in a closet for years. Until I was 15, I thought I was a suit.”—and it would survive. But put the Jenny Holzer panty hose on so you can read THE FUTURE IS STUPID or TURN SOFT AND LOVELY ANY TIME YOU HAVE THE CHANCE running down the back of your leg, and the clock is ticking. Or the pendant watch with Cindy Sherman dressed as a fortune teller.
Kenny Scharf has the Art Object print ad [pdf] listing all 19 artist collabs, and honestly Prada making a JSG Boggs backpack is an even wilder combo than Frette making Scharf’s napkins. What a world. [see below]
Jenny Holzer THE FUTURE IS STUPID Panty Hose, 1993 [wronganswer.ca]
Richard Prince X Barneys X AmFAR shirt at Bengtsson Fine Arts [artsy]
LOL 05 Oct 2023, Lot 708: A white cotton shirt for Art Object by Richard Prince, sold for £10 [busby’s]
hold up, I was all over this 2023 sale of artist books and ephemera and missed two pairs of Jenny Holzer panty hose?? [wright20]
[NEXT MORNING UPDATE] So a pair sold on eBay YESTERDAY. There were Jenny Holzer panty hose at Printed Matter. I mentioned them to a friend just now, and he was all, “Hah, yeah, I remember them from Barneys. AmFAR. I had some and sold them.” So while until yesterday I thought I’d been living in a world oblivious to Jenny Holzer AIDS fundraiser panty hose, I was actually living in a world where everyone around me knew about Jenny Holzer panty hose AND DIDN’T TELL ME.