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The Art Guys™
SUITS: The Clothes Make The Man
with Todd Oldham
(1998-1999)
"...an all-out, super-public, totally social, transcontinental art event." - Dave Hickey |
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The Art Guys leased advertising space on specially tailored business suits designed for them by Todd Oldham. Then beginning in July of 1998, they wore these SUITS for a year throughout the United States, advertsing for their "clients.". There were 62 embroidered logos from 56 different companies on each SUIT. The SUITS are now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. |
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Watch The Art Guys on CBS News Sunday Morning as they're interviewed by Bill Geist 
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SUITS: The Clothes Make The Man
"[The] impudent Pimpernels of post-conceptual performance art." -Dave Hickey
The Art Guys have done it again! In a project exploring the connection between fashion, art, and commerce that only these irrepressible mavericks could have conceived, the two Houston-based artists spent a year crisscrossing the country wearing suits by designer Todd Oldham on which they sold advertising space to 56 American companies. Suits captures-through photographs, essays, and an interview with The Art Guys-the story of their often hilarious experiences in their guise as human billboards. Published by Harry N. Abrams.
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[Background image: Jack in the SUITS (1999), Montgomery County Fair]
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