Détournement: Signs of the Times

A group show breaks down the iconography of signage

Carlo McCormick, senior editor of PAPER Magazine and co-author of “Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art,” recently unveiled his curated show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York. “Détournement: Signs of the Times” is an exhibition of work composed of familiar signs that have been modified by iconoclastic artists. A term first used by Letterist International in the 1950s, McCormick describes détournement in his …