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Pink Thing Of The Day: Peach Soup Painting

peach soup by hiroko yanzawa photo by gail worley
Photo By Gail

OK, Campbell’s condensed Peach Soup is not a thing that exists (fortunately?) but it is a painting by Japanese artist Hiroko Yanzawa. I saw it at The Other Art Fair, in Brooklyn.

Modern Art Monday Presents: Artist’s Shit No. 014 By Piero Manzoni

Artists Shit
All Photos By Gail

Piero Manzoni (July 13, 1933 – February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. His work is widely seen as a critique of the mass production and consumerism that was changing Italian society (the Italian economic miracle) after World War II. In 1961, Manzoni created Artist’s Shit (Italian: Merda d’artista), an artwork that consists of 90 small tin cans, each filled with 1.1 oz of feces, and measuring 1.9″ × 2.6″, with a label in Italian, English, French, and German stating:

Artist’s Shit
Contents 30 gr net
Freshly preserved
Produced and tinned
in May 1961

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Coca Cola Can Designed By Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama Coke Can
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It’s Yayoi’s World, and we just Live in It.

Diet Coke with Bacon: Yes or No?

Mmmm, Bacony…

I found this image on FaceBook and did a little Googling around the Internet see if there was any information about whether or not this a real product. Hmmm…it seems like a joke, but there is a Myspace page claiming it’s a prototype flavor currently being test marketed. I invite my fellow bacon fans to do your own Googling and let me know what you uncover. That is all.

And speaking of Bacon Soda…?