From the desk of K. Johnson
Opinions on objects. Notes on the market. Occasional ramblings.
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Dec 10
2025The Fortnightly Review→A Wooden Desk and Bench by Lawrence Weiner
Keith Johnson: Lawrence Weiner, a central figure in the formation of 1960’s Conceptual art, is renowned for creating site-specific artwork that encompasses t...
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Dec 09
2025The Fortnightly Review→A Dormeuse by Joseph Kosuth
Keith Johnson: Joseph Kosuth is an American conceptual artist renowned for creating artwork based on the methodology of inquiring into the nature of art...
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Dec 02
2025The Fortnightly Review→A Lamp by Franz West
Keith Johnson: The “Privat Lampe des Künstlers II” floor lamp is an attempt to allow the opportunity to decorate a private residence with a rather strange ye...
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Dec 01
2025The Fortnightly Review→A Silver Fruit Bowl by Ettore Sottsass
Keith Johnson: MEMPHIS embodied all of the themes which Sottsass had been experimenting since the 1960’s-1979’s: bright colours, an adoration of cultural kit...
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Nov 28
2025The Fortnightly Review→Pistoletto's Wall Lamp
Keith Johnson: ‘“Tutti Designers” (“Everyone is a Designer”) is a conceptual wall lamp/neon sculpture with a stenciled metallic suitcase, complete with the o...
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Nov 26
2025The Fortnightly Review→Kuramata’s ‘Miss Blanche’ Chair
Keith Johnson: ‘Kuramata turned the viewers’ expectations inside-out and upside-down, conjuring up objects and physical spaces that were radical and yet extr...
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Nov 24
2025The Fortnightly Review→Deganello’s ‘Torso’ Sofa
Keith Johnson: ‘Most interesting of all is the effortless way in which this series of avant-garde seating objects apostatizes the tyranny of the rectangle th...
