The NYT has an obit of Rutherford Chang, an artist who died way too young, at 45, under slightly mysterious circumstances (“His sister…said that a specific cause would not be determined for several months”). His work is of a kind I love, as his sister put it, “obsessive, but not compulsive”: 3,400 copies of the Beatles’ White Album, a 27-minute video of “all of the Hong Kong movie star Andy Lau’s death scenes, in chronological order of the films’ release,” and one of my faves, a copy of the Times’s front page with the words in every element reassembled alphabetically:
There’s so much that could be said about it, but I don’t feel like saying it. So, instead, I’ll toss one more onto the pile: the insert from Mission of Burma’s 1981 EP Signals, Calls, and Marches, which came with an insert with the lyrics — alphabetized.
