WTF, OMG: Pontus Hulten forged Warhols

ARTnews reported that the venerable curator Pontus Hulten, who passed away in 2006, had a set of Warhol Brillo boxes fabricated in 1990, three years after the artist’s death.  No one knows why he did this.

Let’s think about it: Pontus Hulten had fabricated copies made of sculptures that were fabricated copies of a commercial product.  Bonus: at the 1968 Warhol retrospective, the boxes on view were actually ordered and shipped directly from the company that made them.

Everyone, please take a moment of silent reflection to think about authorship.