Seen recently in a group show at MoMA PS1, this piece was something to remind me of Death Palette‘s Paulina Palazzo, professor of art history at the University of British Columbia and editor of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s collected poetry, Bodily Secretions. If I’m reading this label correctly, the artist, Dora Budor, actually smelted, as in melted down, a Citi Bike (worth $1,200) to produce the multiples that pay oddly strewn homage to the Baroness’ found object known as Enduring Ornament. In Art Crit World this is apparently about “property relations,” “contemporary accumulation” and the “transmutations through which value perpetuates itself,” but in my view it’s chiefly about the Baroness, whose skewed enduringness transcends all Marxist posturing. It’s also about the brazenly post-Ubu boo-boo of liquefying a publicly shared bicycle, which is virtually CitiBanksy. As Paulina Palazzo, channeling the Baroness, might put it: “Crooked legs—wheels askew—ramshackle machine.”