4th of August
The art: Cady Noland, This piece doesn’t have a title yet, 1989.  The news: “Bud Kicks Out Its Old Beer Can,” by David Kesmodel for the Wall Street Journal. Note that the new Budweiser can seems not to be — or to at least downplay — its decades-old red, white and blue color scheme. (Also, Budweiser is no-longer an American-owned brand.) The source: Flickr user Incase. I believe the piece was first shown at The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh. It is now in the collection of the Rubell family. Art historical note: Noland’s sculpture riffs on the confluence of patriotism and commercialism and winces at American ‘values’ such as corporatism, consumerism and waste, as well as the limits of American social mobility.

The art: Cady Noland, This piece doesn’t have a title yet, 1989. 

The news: “Bud Kicks Out Its Old Beer Can,” by David Kesmodel for the Wall Street Journal. Note that the new Budweiser can seems not to be — or to at least downplay — its decades-old red, white and blue color scheme. (Also, Budweiser is no-longer an American-owned brand.)

The source: Flickr user Incase. I believe the piece was first shown at The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh. It is now in the collection of the Rubell family.

Art historical note: Noland’s sculpture riffs on the confluence of patriotism and commercialism and winces at American ‘values’ such as corporatism, consumerism and waste, as well as the limits of American social mobility.

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August 4, 2011 12:27pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZK7Y6y7v7Fjx
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  1. happiness-in-magazines reblogged this from 3rdofmay
  2. songsdanlikes reblogged this from 3rdofmay and added:
    That new Budweiser can is weak. This Cady Noland piece however is not.
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