Spotlight on Reinventing Retail

Photography: Rachel Perry Welty and Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY Artwork: Rachel Perry Welty , Lost in My Life (boxes) , detail, 2009, pigment print The business of retailing has changed forever—that’s obvious. For some retailers, the future is about perfecting analytics. For others, it’s about inventing a whole new kind of store. The Future of Shopping by Darrell Rigby Retail Isn’t Broken. Stores Are An interview with Ron Johnson Know What Your Customers Want Before They Do by Thomas H. Davenport, Leandro Dalle Mule, and John Lucker About the Spotlight Artist Each month we illustrate our Spotlight package with a series of works from an accomplished artist. We hope that the lively and cerebral creations of these photographers, painters, and installation artists will infuse the pages with additional energy and intelligence to amplify what are often complex and abstract concepts. This month we showcase Rachel Perry Welty, a Massachusetts-based conceptual artist who finds poetry in the mundane. Her subject, she says, is “the business of living.” In the self-portraits on these pages, she fashions the detritus of her daily life—cereal boxes, fruit stickers, price tags—into a playful and sometimes poignant commentary on our consumer culture. View more of the artist’s work at yanceyrichardson.com .

Spotlight on Reinventing Retail

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