Last month the Springfield Art Museum suffered the loss of seven rare Andy Warhol screen prints from the iconic Campbell's Soup I portfolio--they were stolen right off the walls of the museum. The theft is still under FBI investigation. Meanwhile, the story of the early-morning break-in and heist went viral: news agencies from the New York Times to Reuters to NBC News carried the story around the world. The Springfield Art Museum has received expressions of shock, outrage, and even grief, from artists and art lovers on an international scale. As it happens, a couple of years ago Colorado artist Lindsey Wohlman completed a series of photographs in homage to Warhol's deadpan depictions of Campbell's Soup cans. She calls it Warhol Naked and Unlabeled--and that's a pretty succinct description of Wohlman's images. She created molds of soup cans, took the contents of several varieties of Campbell's soup, mixed gelatin with the soups to firm them up, put them in the molds, and thook photos of
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