New Work from Dan Tague
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?
