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One Fine Show: “Deep Cuts, Block Printing Across Cultures” at LACMA

Spanning more than 1,200 years and four continents, the exhibition organizes its 200-plus objects not by geography or century but by what a block can do.

When Andy Warhol first branched into silkscreen painting, the technology was mostly in use for signage. He’d already hand-painted Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962) and had been thinking about the signs outside supermarkets that might advertise these were on sale. His first silkscreens, however, were of currency. In his epic biography Warhol, Blake Gopnik points out that this might have been inspired by an old professor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology who “talked about the American dollar bill, with its Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington, as a work of art we all carry in our pockets.”

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