Coolhunting, Wooster Collective and others recently featured this New York street/guerilla art installation by Ji Lee called “Duchamp Reloaded.” It is also featured on his website.
I can only find a few descriptive sentences on this project. The artist (who is also the director of Google Creative Labs and was also behind The Bubble Project) says,
In 1913, Marcel Duchamp took found objects from the streets and placed them in museums. 96 years later, if Duchamp were alive, he may want to do the very opposite.
The Lost at E Minor site calls it “a pretty hilarious one-liner for art nerds.”
Coolhunting has a short video about the artist Ji Lee (not about this project).
And that’s about all I can find. Which leads me to suspect that these Duchamp-knockoff stools were photographed in these spots but not left there – I can’t find a single reference to the project online that indicates anyone but the artist saw or photographed it. In fact it’s probably just one stool photographed in these spots. Still, I’m amused.
(Here’s info on the Duchamp 1913 original).
