Published August 30, 2010
Rabbit Redux
If Hef Opened a New Art Gallery...

You’ve long considered the Playboy Bunny a work of art.
So it’s nice to see that, at long last, someone finally agrees with you.
Introducing
Playboy Redux, an art exhibit taking that 50-year-old Chicago-born icon into
strange and interesting new directions. Artistically speaking, that is.
Now, we know what you’re thinking: why mess with perfection? Tell you the truth, we don’t know, but
after seeing the results, we think you’ll be okay with it.
The show comes via the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and is officially sanctioned by the
Playboy
folks, so your cotton-tailed beauties are in safe hands. In this case, those hands actually belong to an
assortment of 35 contemporary artists, each of whom has interpreted the Bunny through his or her particular
lens... including at least one Polaroid lens. (Don’t worry—it’s tasteful. But not, you know,
too tasteful.)
You’ll be happy to know the work is for sale, so you can finally cover that one bare wall you’ve got
left in your apartment—because you’ve probably been waiting for just the right acrylic-on-watercolor
paper of a flame-haired cocktail waitress depositing a key down her bosom in a work entitled
Oops!
Such subject matter is too important for oil paints.
VITALS
Playboy Redux
at Rotofugi Gallery
2780 N Lincoln Ave
(at Shubert)
Chicago, IL 60614
773-868-3308
official website