March 26, 2007

Fire Sale

In the late 60's, John Baldessari took all his paintings, had them cremated, baked the ashes into cookies and put into a book-shaped urn. He promised from then on not to make any more boring art. Recently I came across a survivor of the fire, up for auction, painted in 1962.

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