Titles by John Baldessari

Art Disaster
Baldessari Sings LeWitt
Ed Henderson Reconstructs Movie Scenarios
Ed Henderson Suggests Sound Tracks for Photographs
Folding Hat
Four Minutes of Trying to Tune Two Glasses (For the Phil Glass Sextet)
Four Short Films 1972-1973
Haste Makes Waste
How We Do Art Now
I Am Making Art
I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
Inventory
Police Drawing
Practice Makes Perfect
Script
Six Colorful Inside Jobs
Six Colorful Tales: From the Emotional Spectrum (Women)
Some Words I Mispronounce
Teaching a Plant the Alphabet
The Italian Tape
The Meaning of Various News Photos to Ed Henderson
The Way We Do Art Now and Other Sacred Tales
Three Feathers and Other Fairy Tales
Title
Two Colorful Melodies
Walking Forward-Running Past
Xylophone

Haste Makes Waste

1973, 4 min, b&w, silent

In this droll exercise, Baldessari repeatedly types the title phrase on a piece of paper. His deliberate action doesn't 'waste' his movements or time, and produces a perfect column of text. This apparently pointless goal raises questions about the status of the work of art: wasted labor or valuable commodity?