{"id":13508,"date":"2024-11-30T17:16:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T00:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13508"},"modified":"2024-12-07T17:18:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T00:18:30","slug":"trader-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/30\/trader-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Trader Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/trader-joes-art-book-julie-averbach-2569748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from artnet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grocery Giant Trader Joe\u2019s Hides Art in Its Aisles. This New Book Reveals Just Where to Look<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie Averbach spent four years visiting more than 150 Trader Joe&#8217;s stores and hunting down the retailer&#8217;s art-historical sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/about\/min-chen-26579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Min Chen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13509\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Signs and murals in a Trader Joe&#8217;s store. Photo: Julie Averbach.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, at a Trader Joe\u2019s grocery store, Julie Averbach picked up a box of caesar salad and was immediately struck by its label. Besides announcing the package\u2019s contents, it contained an image of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museivaticani.va\/content\/museivaticani\/en\/collezioni\/musei\/braccio-nuovo\/Augusto-di-Prima-Porta.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Augustus of Prima Porta<\/a><\/em>, the first-ever sculpture carved of the Roman emperor. The lid of a plastic salad bowl was an unlikely (if admittedly witty) place to slap on a 1st-century C.E. statue, but Averbach soon discovered that elsewhere in Trader Joe\u2019s\u2014across its products, signs, and murals\u2014were countless other nods to art. \u201cThe entire store,\u201d she told me over email, \u201cwas a trove of art.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That revelation sent Averbach on a mission. Over the course of nearly four years, the art history major visited more than 150 Trader Joe\u2019s stores across the country to uncover how they deploy visual art in packaging and marketing. What she found was enough to fill a book:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theartoftraderjoes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Art of Trader Joe\u2019s<\/em><\/a>, which identifies and unpacks an abundance of iconic works featured in the stores\u2014from the detail of the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/botticellis-the-birth-of-venus-3-things-2507805\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Birth of Venus<\/a><\/em> on a tin of Italian Roast to a sign in Chicago that references\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/3-things-about-vincent-van-goghs-starry-night-2020713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Starry Night<\/a><\/em> with the superb slogan \u201cYour Gogh-To Neighborhood Store.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/trader-joes-art-book-julie-averbach-2569748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at artnet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet Grocery Giant Trader Joe\u2019s Hides Art in Its Aisles. This New Book Reveals Just Where to Look Julie Averbach spent four years visiting more than 150 Trader Joe&#8217;s stores and hunting down the retailer&#8217;s art-historical sources. by\u00a0Min Chen One day, at a Trader Joe\u2019s grocery store, Julie Averbach picked up a box of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}