Robert Gober's edition for Parkett is a replica of a page in the weekend edition of the New York Times. The artist has assembled and invented a mixture of news items, advertisements, weather reports, and stock market news for October 4, 1960. In the midst of wedding announcements and an item on Runt, a teenagger's dog that was the victim of veterinary malpractice, we find a story on the mysterious death of a six-year-old boy, whoes namesake is the artist himself, born in 1954. We are confronted with Gober's evocation of daily life that oscillates between the utter banality of domestic happiness and sorided drama.

Media : Photolithograph on newsprint with hand-torn edges, printed on both sides and folded three times; 22 1 / 8 x 13 7 / 8 inches; hand-colored with coffee by the artist; printed by Maurice Sanchez and Joe Petruzzelli, Derrière L'Ettoile Studio, New York