Fred Tomaselli's Read, White, and Blue

Before we depart UnBeige HQ for a long weekend of fireworks, nationalistic cupcakes, and multiple viewings of Kieślowski‘s three colors trilogy, we wanted to leave you with something nice to look at: Fred Tomaselli‘s “Sept. 15, 2005” (2009), a gouache on printed watercolor paper. Think NYT on LSD. In her excellent feature on Tomaselli in the July issue of W, Julie Belcove describes the artist’s recent “hallucinatory treatments of front pages from The New York Times” as “bold juxtapositions of cold reality and formal abstraction.”