Artist Charles Goldman—who once took all of his doors, interior and exterior, off their hinges and stacked them in a Chicago gallery—put a ready-to-fold replica of his plain white Toyota truck in Cabinet's recent Insect issue. The idea is that readers should build their own, decorate them (reminds me of Beck's latest DIY cd cover), and send it in for him to catalog on Cabinet's site.

It seems the basic white truck and an identical predecessor have taken on special meaning for him—criss crossing the country, surviving earthquakes, and the like. He also notes, "I had a group of friends that all had the same pickup, and it felt to us like some sort of northern California socialist standard-issue vehicle—a no-frills utility truck for proto-hippies, progressive suburban kids, and sculptors with left-wing leanings." Maybe someday it will be parked in a Marfa-like shrine to Goldman's work, much the way Donald Judd's Land Rover is. (Goldman's work is much less blocky). Anyways I'm all for it.

—O. Karpinsky