Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

About Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Alejo Benedetti is assistant curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

The river's brilliant reflections gave shape to this enormous sculpture in silver

Mapping nature’s stunning beauty

Maya Lin SilverUWRGrid — The river's brilliant reflections gave shape to this enormous sculpture of silver

Maya Lin’s Silver Upper White River

Andy Warhol, Coca-Cola [3], 1962, casein on canvas, 176.2 x 137.2 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts) — Warhol’s art celebrates the consumerism and advertising that inundated American culture in the 1960s.

Consumers, Warhol, and 1960s America

Andy Warhol, Coca-Cola [3] (detail), 1962, casein on canvas, 176.2 x 137.2 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts) — With this canvas, Coca-Cola [3], Warhol becomes Warhol.

Warhol, Coca-Cola [3]