{{italic title}} thumb|right|Interior view of ''The Beanery'' '''''The Beanery''''' is a life-size, walk-in artwork created in 1965 by the American artist Edward Kienholz; it has been referred to as his greatest work, and "one of the most memorable works of late 20th-century art".<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/nov/11/ed-kienholz-hoerengracht-national-gallery The National Gallery takes on Tate Modern with Ed Kienholz | Art and design | The Guardian<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> It represents the interior of a Los Angeles bar, Barney's Beanery.
''The Beanery'' has dimensions of 253 by 670 by 190 centimeters, having been modelled at two-thirds the size of the original Beanery.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Beanery |url=https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/collection/1019-edward-kienholz-the-beanery |website=stedelijk.nl |publisher=stedelijk |access-date=8 July 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Tuchman |first1=Maurice |title=A Decade of Edward Kienholz |url=https://www.artforum.com/features/a-decade-of-edward-kienholz-211678/ |website=Artforum |access-date=11 July 2025}}</ref> It features the smells (created using bacon grease, urine, mothballs, and beer)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Verbeek |first1=Caro |title=Presenting Volatile Heritage: Two Case Studies on Olfactory Reconstructions in the Museum |journal=Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism |date=2016 |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=33–42 |doi=10.5749/futuante.13.2.0033 |jstor=10.5749/futuante.13.2.0033 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/futuante.13.2.0033?seq=2 |access-date=8 July 2025}}</ref> and sounds (including glasses clinking, people talking and laughing, and so on) of the bar, and models of customers, all of whom have clocks for faces with the time set at 10:10. Only the model of Barney, the owner, has a real face. There are seventeen figures in the bar overall.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pincus |first1=Robert L. |title=On a Scale that Competes with the World: The Art of Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz |date=1990 |publisher=Univ of California Press |location=California |isbn=0520067304 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-b_aU_tY0AcC&q=the+beanery+&pg=PR8}}</ref> Outside of the bar is a newspaper which reads, "Children Kill Children in Vietnam".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pincus |first1=Robert L. |title=On a Scale that Competes with the World: The Art of Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz |date=1990 |publisher=Univ of California Press |location=California |isbn=0520067304 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-b_aU_tY0AcC&q=the+beanery+&pg=PR8}}</ref>
First exhibited in the parking lot of the bar in October 1965,<ref name="Pincus">{{cite book|last1=Pincus|first1=Robert L.|title=On a scale that competes with the world : the art of Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz|date=1990|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=978-0-520-06730-1}}</ref> it is now in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Beanery Edward Kienholz |url=https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/collection/1019-edward-kienholz-the-beanery |website=stedelijk |access-date=11 July 2025}}</ref> It was restored in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Beanery, 1965 |url=https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/events/the-beanery-1965 |website=stedelijk |publisher=stedelijk |access-date=11 July 2025}}</ref>
Because viewers are able to go into the artwork, people may accidentally damage elements of the work. Much of the damage that has been sustained over time to the work has been at the height of people's hands. For example, a dog in the work now has some of its fur missing.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Weerdenburg |first1=Sandra |last2=Krumperman |first2=Netta |last3=Timmermans |first3=Rebecca |last4=Rietveld |first4=Tessa |title=The many forms of 'vandalism' in relation to modern art |journal=Ceroart |date=2018 |issue=HS |doi=10.4000/ceroart.5646 |url=https://journals.openedition.org/ceroart/5646 |access-date=8 July 2025|doi-access=free }}</ref>
==Interpretation== Kienholz is quoted as saying "The entire work symbolizes the switch from real time (symbolized by a newspaper) to the surrealist time inside the bar, where people waste time, kill time, forget time, and ignore time".<ref name=cultuurwijs>[http://www.cultuurwijs.nl/nwc.stedelijkmuseumamsterdam/cultuurwijs.nl/i000030.html Cultuurwijs – Een nagemaakte kroeg<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He also said that his goal with ''the Beanery'' was to create artwork that was more approachable and easier for the viewer to have an experience with.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pincus |first1=Robert L. |title=On a Scale that Competes with the World: The Art of Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz |date=1990 |publisher=Univ of California Press |location=California |isbn=0520067304 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-b_aU_tY0AcC&q=the+beanery+&pg=PR8}}</ref>
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