Last month conceptual artist Rutherford Chang sadly passed away. This was brought to my attention via the music world because he spent many years collecting the numbered editions of The Beatles White Album and sometimes displaying them as a form of art. In addition to collecting the albums, he also listened to it every day, which is an impressive feat. I bought a non-numbered White Album in the mid 70's and played it a lot, trying to like it more than I could. While there are many good songs on there, let's face it, there are also some clunkers. Where his collection IMO gets really interesting is when previous owners decided to create their own cover art or just doodled on it. I confess to having little to no imagination and am not very artistic as this never occurred to me to do. Some of the albums he obtained now have wonderful cover art. I hope this labor of love he worked on has or will be kept together and continued.
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