Published December 29, 2008 Uncategorized
James David Morgan

New Work from Dan Tague

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Dan Tague’s Church and State from Cash Rules Everything Around Me

Dan Tague and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery are reproducing Tague’s Cash Rules Everything Around Me as a line of t-shirts.  One dollar from the sale of each t-shirt will be donated to the New Orleans Habitat for Humanity.  I like Tague’s work, it has a similar appeal to Cildo Meireles’ Banknote Project, but, per Meireles, if we think of these commodities as an insertion into ideological circuits, it strips the subversive, disruptive qualities away, and Cash Rules Everything Around Me is no longer understood as an observation or social criticism, but an ethos.  Then again, Meireles is in the Tate – voluntarily – and, though I don’t plan to purchase one, I would wear a Tague t-shirt.   Thoughts?

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  1. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery says:
    August 6, 2009 at 3:16 PM

    Dan Tague was great this past weekend at White Linen night in New Orleans.

    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30651214&id=1275458848

    Be sure to check out his new work “Fist Talk” on the gallery website
    or check us out on facebook to find out more about Dan and his work.
    Thanks for supporting

    Jonathan Ferrara Gallery