Among Jeffrey Deitch's contributions to New York culture has been an illusionistic portrayal of the forms of the street, which, through his gallery, have become more thoroughly integrated into high culture than they had been upon an earlier wave of cultural displacement in the 1980s. The equation of art, graffiti, and advertising that has shaped the Pop core of the Deitch Projects program was seemingly laid out with the gallery logo, a reconfiguration of the very Brillo logo which Andy Warhol appropriated for his 1964 replication of the boxes. This is the same sculpture which Arthur Danto used to ground his thesis of our age being (in a Hegelian sense) a "post-art" one.
Top to bottom: Andy Warhol, Brillo Soap Pads Box, 1964; Todd James, Steve Powers, and Barry McGee, Street Market, 2000 (Wooster St.), Fischerspooner with Gareth Pugh at The Art Parade, 2006; Dan Colen and Dash Snow, Nest, 2007 (Grand St.); Swoon, Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, 2008











