Who said art is for the 1pc?
A New York exhibition celebrates making art for the masses and feeling good about it.
Somewhere around the fall of 1967, a couple of newly-minted PhDs, feeding six kids on an income of something like $US9000($11,600), set out to decorate their modest house.
They brought home a wall-filling banner by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, which had a dotty seascape cut into its cloth. And a tabletop set of "soft" drums made of canvas by his colleague-in-pop Claes Oldenburg. Also, a colourful set of abstractions: squares within squares by Josef Albers of the Bauhaus.
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