Zac Weinberg, who now lives in the UK but grew up in Ohio, found the bristle broom and a cutesy bird lamp in this display in a thrift store, transmuting mundane objects into art, encasing them in transparent glass fixtures. The glass makes visible elements of modern infrastructure, like electrical wiring, that are often taken for granted. The broom hovers an inch above the ground and spins in its glass case, always at work but never actually cleaning.

One of the many displays in the Renwick Gallery’s new exhibition, “State Fairs: Growing American Craft,” dedicated to artists’ contributions to the great U.S. tradition of state fairs with more than 240 artworks on view, dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

‘My Millefiore’ (2023), posted earlier: