🚨NEW🚨additions to the third floor! Come by and visit us. “FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES I started buying rubber and plastic toys from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s in 1990—a really rough time for me. One day at the flea market, which is one of the places I love most, I bought a couple and took them home. Their buggy eyes and big ears made me happy, and I thought, Well, if I get more, perhaps I’ll get happier. Then they became an obsession. Last time I counted I had 1,500. My favorite characters are Minnie and Mickey; after that, the Flintstones, and Pee-wee Herman. I hate Barbies. When I went to art school every queen from the Midwest had them; they always cut their hair, painted them. The rubber toys I collect have been altered too, but by kids. My favorite thing is when little girls take Minnies and do their eyelashes. People ask me, “Are you ever going to do something with them?” I already do—I live with them. I teach, and my students always ask, “How come you never show your work?” And I say, “I did, all semester.” This is also my work—why separate the two?”