#just give me a q-tip and five minutes the auction house photographer did not say

[gregdotorg]

In October 1968 Claes Oldenburg and art dealer Richard Feigen quickly organized a fundraising exhibition to support the ACLU, which was defending antiwar protestors who'd been beaten and arrested in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention.

Oldenburg's idea was a quirky souvenir, but make it cobblestone-size. You know, for kids. Kids in the streets. Oldenburg said Fire Plug Souvenir — Chicago August 1968 looked like a teddy bear, but I think we can all agree those are neither eyes nor ears.

https://greg.org/archive/2023/08/26/cobblestone-sized-fire-plug-souvenir-chicago-august-1968.html