Store as Cunt, by Bruce Hainley. Free typo-ridden version of an extraordinary, longish, Art Journal essay on Sturtevant, first paragraph apparently MIA.
"Three weeks later, on Sunday, May 14, 1967, a more standardized (or authorized) bulletin ran in 'What's New in Art':
STURTEVANT- 623 East 9th Street. The Store of Claes Oldenburg by Sturtevant. To June 11
However
many questions remain unanswered, certain matters are clarified:
there's a new closing date, and an artist's name now accredits the
enterprise, twice over, as if to notarize in duplicate who was doing
what to whom again.
Something related to Oldenburg and his work
changed the dynamics of the response to Sturtevant and hers, despite the
fact that The Store of Claes Oldenburg by Sturtevant never was The Store
by Claes Oldenburg. When asked about Oldenburg in the late 1980s,
Sturtevant confirmed, without mentioning her performance in Washes or
any other interaction the artists may have had, that 'he was one of my
big supporters both intuitively and intellectually until I recreated his
store [sic] and he just went bananas.'" His wasn't the only volte-face,
as the artist noted. 'People thought I was joshing, or saying that
anyone could do it. Of course that was not my intention.'"