Double Vision


by at April 21, 2006, 12:49 PM

courage.jpgbeauty-pierson.jpgThe battle between found-signage artist Jack Pierson and found-signage window display artist Simon Doonan continues, with each accusing the other of a rip-off. Barneys creative director Doonan claims to have first used the style in 1978, when Pierson was a teenager; Pierson's gallery claims Barneys has "no respect for artists or the art world." But what about the guys who actually manufactured those signs in the first place?

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