The Overwhelming Admiration of Andy Warhol.
The Brant Foundation is currently showcasing "Andy Warhol: Thirty Are Better than One," a survey of five decades of purchases by Peter Brant in his New York foundation. The exhibit features 50 classic works of Pop Art, including a great Car Crash, a bullet-pierced Marilyn, and a vast Oxidation that Warhol "painted" with urine. However, the author suggests that we should acknowledge the profound and fertile wrongness that was in Warhol's art from the start, rather than just admiring his achievements. Warhol was willing to recognize how stuff that starts life looking like art can end it acting like currency, and his works have become the safest of deluxe commodities.