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Philadelphia artist Odili Donald Odita has replaced Andy Warhol on MoMA’s walls

MoMA’s entrance is both inside and outside of the main museum; an in-between that greets visitors with “Songs from Life,” an ongoing exhibit featuring paintings by Philly artist Odili Donald Odita. For six weeks before the show opened on Tuesday, museum goers could see members of Odita’s team on scissor lifts, taping and painting the walls of the museum. Even before that, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, the show’s curator, said the pieces took shape in Odita’s studio — with graphs and charts, and meticulous playing around with numbers, measuring and re-measuring the space and its orientation. The months-long process of creating “Songs from Life” used 192 cans of Benjamin Moore paint that were mixed and remixed to create 10,000-12,000 unique shades.
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