In December 1987, Philippe Thomas (1951–1995) opened his first agency in the Cable Gallery, New York, called readymades belong to everyone®. A French branch of this public relations agency soon followed in 1988 in Paris. The most immediate result was that the artist, as well as his name, disappeared as the author of the works, to be replaced by an impersonal title. The final exhibition of the agency took place at MAMCO in 1994, and the museum has preserved its components, i.e. the boxes and packing materials for the agency’s archives, as well as some of the images that punctuated its art career. Thomas died within months of opening the exhibition, and so the agency was definitively closed. By donating this work, he was bringing his undertaking to an end, both masterfully and modestly. His goal was for art to record the disappearance of the author.