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I suppose I just don't get it. Art. Pop Culture. Local Legend. The large museum is located just across the Andy Warhol Bridge (7th street) from downtown, with convenient parking available in a nearby lot across the street for $7.00. We went on a Friday night and took advantage of the 1/2 price admission. It was $20 for two, instead of $40. I'd be mad if I paid $40. As others have mentioned, you start on the 7th floor, and work your way down. There are some artsy folk who function as "security guards" on each level. They essentially follow you around to make sure you don't touch? steal? break? something. I found it especially annoying given that my wife and I look about as menacing as an unmasked Scooby-Doo mastermind tied up by rope. We've been to some of the world's largest and best museums with priceless art displays everywhere and been watched less. Trust me, I'm not going to shove the Campbell's soup can picture down my pants. The silver cloud balloons are safe. The 50ft wide poster will not fit in my car. The majority of the freehand drawing and original artwork seemed weak to me. Much of his work appears to be derivatives in many ways. So perhaps it's a mashup of an advertising poster with artwork on top of it. Or perhaps its a rubber stamp applied 150 times to a canvas. Or a film-clip video with each frame of a few second scene displayed on a print. Or a gun photographed at two angles, and combined. The thing that bothers me here is that the majority of it is simply rearranging or combining media. And yes, maybe THE METHODS for doing so were novel at the time. But in today's world of very easy media manipulation, I think audiences are harder to impress. I'm more impressed by the Photoshop battles on reddit! Maybe I just don't get it. I'll try to work on that. :)
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