CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/28/2024

Staff Favorite 'Pippa Garner: Better Living Catalog' is Back in Stock!

Congratulations to Pippa Garner on her inclusion in the upcoming 2024 Whitney Biennial, Even Better Than The Real Thing! Featured spreads are from Primary Information’s 2023 facsimile reprint of Pippa Garner: Better Living Catalog, published to coincide with $ELL YOUR $ELF—the deeply satirical octogenarian conceptualist’s recent exhibition at Art Omi. A cult sensation when it was first published in 1982—before Garner began her gender transition—Better Living Catalog somehow broke through to the mainstream and earned the artist spots on late-night TV and coverage in popular magazines. Featured here are Garner’s concept for the “Half-Suit” with abbreviated midsection (modeled on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson); a self-explanatory “Bird Hot Tub with Jazuzzi;” a DIY projectile “Garbage Shoot” disposal system; the “Talkman” private oratory system; and a “Blaster Bra” wearable stereo system.