Still Life

Pop Artist Tom Wesselmann's Great American Nudes have long been a fixture of the gallery and museum scene. These chromatic cuties--or selected parts of their anatomy--are usually molded in plastic or painted in hot, bright oils and acrylics, but the current show at New York's Sidney Janis Gallery features the breast of a real live girl. The work, a three-dimensional still life, is contained in a box firmly set into a tightly closed door. Every Saturday between 2 and 4:30 p.m. the breast projects from a hole in the top amongst the painted wooden models of an orange, an ashtray and a bottle of perfume--all in scale. The rest of the girl is lying on a foam-rubber-covered scaffolding, safely out of sight and usually reading a book for her graduate studies in political science at Columbia University.

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