Poster published in conjunction with a series of events called The Culture-In sponsored by The Aspen Center of Contemporary Art, held August 17 - 20, [1967].
Several weeks ago "hippies" had a "love" picnic for the people of Aspen.
Not to be outdone by the hippies, six well-known "pop" artists who have been spending the summer working at the new Aspen Institute of Contemporary Arts decided to have a four-day "culture-in" so that Aspen residents and visitors could see what they were up to and have fun besides—or perhaps it was all fun.
The six "pop" artists, Allan D'Arcangelo, Les Levine, Roy Lichtenstein. Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, and De Wain Valentine joined forces with some poets and writers who are summering in Aspen and imported an "underground" movie maker, Stan Brakhage, who lives in a ghost town on the Eastern Slope.
The '"Kulch-ln" began with the six artists in residence at a panel defining the "avant-garde image."
The next day. the artists opened their studios In the Brand Building to the public. Exhibited was the work done during their summer here.
D'Arcangelo's studio had a half dozen new paintings of highways and directional signs.
Levine concocted something he called a disposable environment-multiple plastic shapes on walls.
Lichtenstein, who won fame by painting large versions of comic strips, painted a room white and printed SLAM
across a door and jam. He painted CLICK around the light switch. CLICK and SLAM were in black. Room was in white.
Robert Morris showed what looked like several piles of discarded pieces of felt, each piece numbered with chalk.
Claes Oldenburg did a scale model called "on the subject of a Drum Pedal " It looked just like a drum pedal.
De Wain Valentine's sculpture showed the flying saucer syndrome and may have been responsible for the rumors that flying saucers caused Monday's power outage.—Joan Lane, "Pop Artists' 'Culture-In' Answers Hippie 'Love-In," Daily Sentinel (Grand Union, CO), August 25, 1967
