CREAM Crossroads , Cream , 1969 Vinyl

Best Of Cream by Cream released in 1969 Clapton, Bruce and Baker - the first super group Complete with lyric slides and pictures of the band. Judging by the comments online, pop artist Jim Dine's sleeve for this Cream greatest hits collection didn't go down too well with the band's fans. "That black-and-white sketch of the cucumbers isn't even finished (besides looking a bit phallic)," complains one guy on a forum. But Dine's sleeve continues the artist's attempt to defamiliarise the most mundane and recognisable of household items, treating aubergines and oranges as abstract forms much as an earlier generation would have employed purple and, well, orange. A participant in the important New Painting of Common Objects exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1962, alongside Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Ed Ruscha, Dine remains a unique voice in contemporary art, with a show of new works currently on view at Galerie Templon, Paris.