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Aspen magazine issue three is an utterly important document of pop art, a magazine a document of pop art Go figure, but Aspen was different. It was a magazine in a box. It was a bunch of loose printed pieces and audio pieces and sometimes even video pieces placed into a box and sold the 1960s and into the early 70s. I own three of them and sadly not issue three which is the pop art issue, which was designed by Andy Warhol and David Dalton. And this is an absolutely massively important piece. The pieces range from the Velvet Underground, the view from the bandstand which includes their a flexi disc and some of their music. It includes pieces by John Cale and Peter Walker, a wonderful 12 paintings from the powers collection. And that's the art collection of Thomas powers. And it has James Rosenquist, Bridget Riley, Joe Lang, Lichtenstein, Noland Warhol, Klaus Oldenburg plays Oldenburger Larry Poons, Jasper Jones, de Kooning, an underground movie flipbook by Warhol were you flipping it includes Warhols kiss a 10 trip ticket book, which was from the Berkeley conference on LSD, the plastic exploding inevitable, which is a one shot newspaper done for the Velvet Underground and Warhols factory show series. what's incredible about this isn't necessarily the quality of individual pieces, but how the consolidation of them into a box makes so much sense with the method because the cover is done as a mock of FAB detergent, and it says fab 10 cents off and then there's now Aspen it's an incredibly pop art image. And since it's a box, it's mocking and mimicking a boxed product. In essence, this is exactly what pop art is doing. It is documenting the everyday world and showing it back at you in a way that you will recognize and this magazine and the link I'll include is just phenomenal. And I'll do another couple of aspen issues, including two that I own. So stay tuned.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS work, jeff koons, anish kapoor, various backgrounds, magnificent, stunning, piece, chicago skyline, war memorial, frank gehry, magnificently, aforementioned, millennium park, issue, multifocal, morphed, balloon, skyline, amphitheatre, funhouse mirror SPEAKERS Christopher Garcia Christopher Garcia  My recent trip to Chicago I had one must-see, and that was Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate, better known as 'The Bean.' And it's a stunning work, it really is, as much as Anish Kapoor is the most troubling artist working today. He's kinda like Jeff Koons was in 1989. He put out a piece that is just magnificent. It's a piece that speaks of its time and its place, and the viewer. Because this is what is so amazing. When you look at this work, in particular, its position in Millennium Park, you can walk all the way around it, you're reflected in it. At the same time, you're morphed like a multifocal funhouse mirror, and you can walk under it and look up and this beautiful sort of divot, which gives this very different form of distortion to everything you see, it's magnificently beautiful. It is a stunning work. Of course, it was over budget and delayed, but let's not go there. One of the things that makes it so impressive is the ability to take a picture of it. With the various backgrounds. Taken from one angle, you see much of the Chicago skyline from another you catch the Frank Gehry-designed amphitheatre from another you get skyline and I believe it's a war memorial of some sort. Another way and its trees. But what will be in all of those photos is the photographer, you will always see yourself in the work. This is far from the first work that managed that. Jeff Koons, the aforementioned, f course with his balloon dogs, for example, but as a piece of public art, it does magnificent things to draw you in, as well as encapsulate you within this work. It's a masterpiece. It's a masterpiece of public art, and I'm so glad I got to see it in person. Finally,

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