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...midst of this real, worthless trash, however, was a hidden treasure: a table of found object art—trash for the discerning connoisseur...
...Italy, they called it Arte Povera, elsewhere "junk art": turning refuse - burlap sacks, globs of tar - into popular works. For artists like Alberto Burri, who began producing Arte Povera in the '50s, such trash would eventually become treasure. Museums and galleries such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York City and the Pompidou Center in Paris vied for his works for decades. In 1989, a collector shelled out $2.8 million for one of his prized Sacco (Sack) paintings called Umbria Vera. At the time of his death in 1995, Burri's most famous pieces, including the Sacks and Plastics...
...best known for his pivotal interception for the New York Jets in 1969's Super Bowl III--the last game of his 11-year career--that helped push the Jets to their storied 16-7 upset of the heavily favored Baltimore Colts; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. An early "trash talker," he winkingly acknowledged his reputation in a 1970 memoir, Confessions of a Dirty Player...
...apples, today's pop media are far more challenging than yesterday's. The Sopranos' interlaced plots make Hill Street Blues look like a Barney video. Nemo tracks many more characters and story lines than did Bambi. And supposedly mindless shows like The Apprentice are graduate seminars compared with '70s trash like The Love Boat, requiring us to parse webs of relationships, motives and strategies. In today's media, says Johnson, "even the crap has improved...
...HUPD officers reported to the Science Center in response to a report alleging that a person had knocked over a trash barrel and was making noise. Although the responding officers could not locate the individual, they notified the building’s facility staff of the mess the knocked-over barrel had made...