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The Walker Curates the News: 11.02.15

Corita Kent, _[W]RON[G] WAY / Prophets of boom_, 1967, on view in Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, Harvard Art Museums.

Corita Kent, [W]RON[G] WAY / Prophets of boom, 1967, on view in Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, Harvard Art Museums

“Her gift was to express these really profound things with a kind of playfulness. That was Corita. There was an irony, what we might call a ludic element in her work, that sort of disarmed you. She’s almost a trickster.” StoryCorps captures visitors’ reactions to Corita Kent’s socially engaged Pop art, now on view at the Harvard Art Museums (her work is also on view in the new Walker Art Center exhibition, Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia).

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