No Use Crying Over Built Beer

Tavares Strachan, The Problem of One Thing Existing Simultaneously, 2006.

One broken Budweiser bottle found; the other cut to match it precisely. No mean feat.

Hannah Greely, Joe, 2004.

In another piece, Molly and Johnny, which Greely showed at the Hammer's "Thing" exhibit, there are a pair of Budweisers—one smashed to bits, I believe. The objects are polyester resin cast and painted.

Jasper Johns, Painted Bronze, 1960.

This work came about, of course, after Johns heard Willem de Kooning boasting that dealer Leo Castelli could sell anything, even beer cans. Naturally, Castelli sold this piece.