[title not known] 1976

Editor: Here we have an untitled work by Michael Rothenstein, seemingly from 1976. It looks like a print of a crumpled newspaper fragment. What strikes me is the way it elevates discarded material. What do you make of it? Curator: It's interesting how Rothenstein takes a transient, mass-produced object like newsprint and transforms it through printmaking. Consider the labor involved: gathering the fragment, the printing process itself. How does this recontextualization affect our consumption of news and information? Editor: It makes me think about how fleeting information is, yet here it is, immortalized in a print. Curator: Exactly. It prompts us to question the value we assign to objects and the processes that create them.