Slog - Comments on Bitches http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/bitches Back in 1962, the show [of the original 32 Campbell's Soup Cans] met with such derision that a rival gallery across the street stacked some actual soup cans in their window and printed a sign: "We Have the Real Thing for 29 Cents." From Richard Polsky's book I Bought Andy Warhol. P.S. I learned while watching the documentary "The Birth of the Cool" "The Cool School" earlier this year that those first soup cans were not hung but displayed on shelves, theatrically, as if they were framed, but still in a grocery-store. I think it was the idea of... Copyright 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:00:00 -0800 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:00:10 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by tiddlywinks I think you meant the documentary, "The Cool School"

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]]> tiddlywinks http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/bitches#c1109197 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/bitches#c1109197 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:26:16 -0800 Comment by Jen Graves Yes! "The Cool School." Sorry. The related exhibition was called "Birth of the Cool."

]]> Jen Graves http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/bitches#c1109239 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/bitches#c1109239 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:00:10 -0800