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Few artists were as fascinated by everyday consumer products as Andy Warhol. From Campbell’s Soup Cans to Brillo Boxes, Warhol transformed ordinary objects into icons of contemporary art. One of his more unusual and lesser-known works from the late 1960s takes that fascination a step further: a wooden Coca-Cola crate filled with real Coca-Cola bottles painted entirely silver.
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Robert Jackson’s Tinkering with Reality is a disarmingly fun exhibit of contemporary pop-realist paintings whose everyday subject matter lends them an element of the absurd. More than anything, this exhibit reminded me of the paintings of Robert Deyber, but without the obvious visual puns attached. Continue reading Robert C. Jackson’s Tinkering With Reality at Gallery Henoch
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Geoffrey and I walked past these stacks of assorted Pink Crates, which were sitting on the sidewalk outside a restaurant, somewhere on Madison Avenue, while we were walking on our way from the Whitney Museum to The Met. I had to stop and photograph them for a Pink Thing of The Day post, because they are so beautiful.