Tom Sachs Cameras Exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is offering a snapshot of Tom Sachs’s work that focuses exclusively on cameras, opened on June 21st and ending on September 16th [London] – The exhibition includes the earliest existing work by the artist, a clay replica of a Nikon SLR camera that Sachs made when he was eight years old as a gift to his father. This contrasts with his recent elegy to the now-defunct Polaroid Corporation: a fully functional “instant” camera that has been cobbled together out of (among other things) a Hasselblad and Canon digital camera, a tiny HP inkjet printer, and a battery from a Makita cordless drill and more…

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Tomorrow (June 12th) marks the opening of the Sotheby’s “Important 20th Century Design” auction in New York. Bids will start between $30.000 to $50.000 with an  amazing selection of furniture design (especially chairs & seats ) including these expensive chairs by artists like Tom Sachs, Shiro Kuramata, Gaetano Pesce and Robert Wilson. According to Sotheby’s these are “some of the most acclaimed designs of the decade ! ” Go here to see the full catalog…

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Tom Sachs re-update his website and present some new Installations :

Like the ” Bronze Collection “:
Large scale bronzes of foamcore Hello Kitty, My Melody, and Miffy models debut at Lever House in New York City. Other bronze casts, including stacks of car batteries and skateboarding ramps, accompany these bronzes. Editions follow at Baldwin Gallery in Aspen, Colorado and at the Trocadero in Paris, France.

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