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Danto, Arthur C. | November 26, 1990 issue

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The article focuses on the exhibition of high and low art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The author hoped that the low art in the projected show would do something along those lines--be antic and wry, say not to take matters of art too seriously, that there has to be some basis in fun for the existence of art, that it can't be all sopranic lamentation and tragical sighs and prayers for divine intercession. One of the marvelous expressions of Pop ideology, which affirmed as it subverted the stigma of commercialism, and at the same time sought to paint out the boundary between high and low art, was Claes Oldenburg's Store, which operated on East 2nd Street in Manhattan, New York, from December 1961 to January 1962.

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ART -- Exhibitions; ART museums; EXHIBITIONS; ART, Modern; IDEOLOGY in art; NEW York (State); UNITED States
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