At SUNY Museum, an Exhibit of the Art of the Ordinary

The campus of the State University of New York here is exploring the significance to American culture of such ordinary objects as a polystyrene Big Mac container, a Wheaties box, and a Barbie doll.

An exhibit that began last summer and closes at the end of this month features about 350 contemporary objects, largely from the 1950s on, that were collected over the past decade by graduate students in the university's two-year,

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