Paul McCartney's New album cover

[Ronald42]

Anyone noticed? Very Pet Shop Boys

[Patrick Bateman]

Very Dan Flavin.

[Deschanel]

Very Dan Flavin.

Quite this. Doesn't seem very Macca though. And, an uninteresting picture.

I always used to wonder what owners of original '70's Dan Flavin artworks do when the flourescent tubes inevitably burn out. Apparently there's an Institute that will replace them. But is it the same work? Like when the shark in formaldehyde in Damien Hirst's most famous and name-making work had to be replaced because the original was rotting and disintegrating disgustingly. They replaced the shark, but is it still the same artwork?

Anyway, I think PSB did more interesting things with flourescent lights in the "Minimal" video than Dan Flavin did in his whole career. And I don't think it's an accident that a song title like that indirectly references Flavin in a way. 1970's minimalism like Flavin's bores the pants off me, personally. Maybe it was great on Quaaludes back then, I don't know what you want but I can't give it any more. But at least he inspired people like Jenny Holzer and Olafur Eliasson later.

[raggatwin]

Does it have to be the same shark or tubes, they are postmodern pieces after all...