{"id":5183,"date":"2016-04-09T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2016-04-05T10:05:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T14:05:57","slug":"fischli-and-weiss-at-houston-street-with-public-art-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/09\/fischli-and-weiss-at-houston-street-with-public-art-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Fischli and Weiss at Houston Street with Public Art Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since lifting it from the bulletin board of a Thai ceramic factory 30 years ago, Swiss artists Fischli and Weiss have reproduced this motivational list in different locations and formats over the years, most recently installing it on Houston Street in Manhattan. From the simple instruction to \u2018do one thing at a time\u2019 to the more profound challenge to \u2018distinguish sense from nonsense,\u2019 the advice encapsulates the artists\u2019 credo to ask questions and embrace the absurd. (On Houston St at Mott Street through May 1<sup>st<\/sup>. For more info, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicartfund.org\/view\/exhibitions\/6099_peter_fischli_david_weiss__how_to_work_better\" target=\"_blank\">Public Art Fund<\/a> or visit the artists\u2019 retrospective at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guggenheim.org\/new-york\/exhibitions\/on-view\/fischliweiss-how-to-work-better\" target=\"_blank\">Guggenheim<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5184\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5184\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5184\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5184\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/fischli_weiss-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"Fischli and Weiss, \u2018How to Work Better\u2019 installation view on Houston St at Mott St, March 2016.\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/fischli_weiss-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/fischli_weiss-1200x1653.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fischli and Weiss, \u2018How to Work Better\u2019 installation view on Houston St at Mott St, March 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since lifting it from the bulletin board of a Thai ceramic factory 30 years ago, Swiss artists Fischli and Weiss have reproduced this motivational list in different locations and formats over the years, most recently installing it on Houston Street in Manhattan. From the simple instruction to \u2018do one thing at a time\u2019 to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/09\/fischli-and-weiss-at-houston-street-with-public-art-fund\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fischli and Weiss at Houston Street with Public Art Fund&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,147,18,5768,5184,2885,5763,432,141,5769,5764,2336,38,5766,434,5767,33,332,5765,2367,2892,16],"class_list":["post-5183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-bulletin-board","tag-collaboration","tag-factory","tag-fischli-and-weiss","tag-gallery-tour","tag-guggenheim","tag-houston-street","tag-how-to-work-better","tag-humor","tag-installation","tag-instruction","tag-lower-east-side-tour","tag-motivation","tag-painting","tag-public-art-fund","tag-ready-made","tag-stencil","tag-thailand","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1lB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5185,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions\/5185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}