Forbes - January 8, 2001
Cubiclism
If your idea of "office art" is taping snapshots of your cat to your
PC, then you might envy the achievement of Jerry Irwin, of booze-bottler
Brown-Forman. Irwin spent many happy hours assembling dozens of painted
(and empty) Jack Daniel's bottles into a colorful geometric construction
he calls "Bottleweave." This spirited work was recently exhibited to
a wider audience of B-F employees through a program called art@work.
Developed by the Business Committee for the Arts, art@work encourages
employees to share their creativity with peers by giving them temporary
exhibit and performance space at work. (Picture cafeterias doubling
as art galleries.) So far 17 companies are participating, including
FORBES and Playboy Enterprises. (We suspect their exhibit was a tad
more revealing than ours.) Call 212-664-0600 for details.
-L.G.