Article: Spiritual America: David Deitcher on pre-teen spirit.(Popisms)

For twenty years I kept a rather plain postcard tucked away in a folder of art-related ephemera from the early '80s. From edge to edge on its other wise black face, white capital letters spell out a single word: "POP." On the flip side, the card provides the basics about a now all-but-forgotten exhibition: works by Sarah Charlesworth, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Allan McCollum, and Richard Prince; opening on the evening of February 1, 1984, at a place called Spiritual America, 5 Rivington Street, on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

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Prince masterminded both "POP" and the funky storefront space he had opened ...

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