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ARTTHE MANSARDS
Interesting Ideas is about Outsider art, vernacular culture,: roadside art and architecture, pop culture at the margins, occasional politicaldespair
THE CROSS GARDEN
W.C. Rice’s cross garden art environment in Prattville, Alabama, near Montgomery, was one of the nation’s fiercest roadside views. The drift of his message was crystal clear, although the specifics were sometimes arcane. INTERESTING IDEAS: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW: GENTILES IN The Dick Van Dyke Show: Gentiles in Paradise. You didn't notice that Dick Van Dyke was one of the most Jewish shows ever seen on network TV, at least until Seinfeld ? Granted, only Buddy was officially Jewish. (Remember the episode when they thought he was having an affair; it really was bar mitzvah lessons). But consider the milieuthe show's
WHAT IS OUTSIDER ART? Like many of us, I’ve learned a lot since then, and the recent death of Roger Cardinal, whose 1972 book “Outsider Art” originated the term, made me consider revising the essay.It has a bit of history about it, at least for me, though, so I’ve left it as is. MUFFLER PEOPLE: THE LAST AMERICAN FOLK ART Calling muffler people “the last American folk art” may be a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. If you accept a fairly rigorous definition of folk art, much of what is UNSEALED: THE ART OF THE BOTTLE CAP Unsealed: The Art of the Bottle Cap. It may seem odd that discarded caps from beer and soda containers inspired a quintessentially 20th century folk craft. But crown caps, patented in 1892, were new to the century, and as used bottle caps accumulated, creative individualsstarted to
STANLEY SZWARC'S MASTERFUL STAINLESS STEEL SCULPTURE When Stanley Szwarc saw three of his creations in an outsider art survey at the Chicago Cultural Center, his reaction was not entirely favorable. One of the steel constructions, a jewelry box decorated with a human face, badly needed cleaning. Worse, the other two pieces -- a small cross and a vase, both covered with the geometric patternsthat
OLD MOTELS - ROADSIDE ART ONLINE - INTERESTING IDEAS Roadside Art Online: Old Motels. Like the crossroads at Pruner's Cottages, multiple points of appeal intersect in these postcards. The quaintness is about equal in the cards themselves and the motels they picture -- both associated with memories of road trips long past, where the first thing you did after checking in was rush to the roomto
BIG SOME DAY: THE WOOLSEY BOTTLE CAP In the Woolseys’ own time, what seemed to most interest the world was the huge number of bottle caps required to create the some 400 objects that newspaper articles reported in 1971. Volume was the primary theme of an article in the Waterloo Courier — one piece used30,000 caps!
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: FRANK CAPRA'S DARK SIDE All is not so rosy in It's A Wonderful Life. When Frank Capra died, it was inevitable that It's a Wonderful Life would be trotted out to demonstrate his life-affirming, joyous love of people.. The film is a classic, even if it is wildly overexposed, and even if a fluke of paperwork is mostly responsible for its star status. Had its copyright been properly renewed in 1975, It's a Wonderful Life OUTSIDER ART, VERNACULAR ART, ROADSIDE ART, ODDBALL CULTURETHE LATEST STUFFOUTSIDER ART PAGESROADSIDE ARTTHE IDEA BARNWHAT IS OUTSIDERARTTHE MANSARDS
Interesting Ideas is about Outsider art, vernacular culture,: roadside art and architecture, pop culture at the margins, occasional politicaldespair
THE CROSS GARDEN
W.C. Rice’s cross garden art environment in Prattville, Alabama, near Montgomery, was one of the nation’s fiercest roadside views. The drift of his message was crystal clear, although the specifics were sometimes arcane. INTERESTING IDEAS: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW: GENTILES IN The Dick Van Dyke Show: Gentiles in Paradise. You didn't notice that Dick Van Dyke was one of the most Jewish shows ever seen on network TV, at least until Seinfeld ? Granted, only Buddy was officially Jewish. (Remember the episode when they thought he was having an affair; it really was bar mitzvah lessons). But consider the milieuthe show's
WHAT IS OUTSIDER ART? Like many of us, I’ve learned a lot since then, and the recent death of Roger Cardinal, whose 1972 book “Outsider Art” originated the term, made me consider revising the essay.It has a bit of history about it, at least for me, though, so I’ve left it as is. MUFFLER PEOPLE: THE LAST AMERICAN FOLK ART Calling muffler people “the last American folk art” may be a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. If you accept a fairly rigorous definition of folk art, much of what is UNSEALED: THE ART OF THE BOTTLE CAP Unsealed: The Art of the Bottle Cap. It may seem odd that discarded caps from beer and soda containers inspired a quintessentially 20th century folk craft. But crown caps, patented in 1892, were new to the century, and as used bottle caps accumulated, creative individualsstarted to
STANLEY SZWARC'S MASTERFUL STAINLESS STEEL SCULPTURE When Stanley Szwarc saw three of his creations in an outsider art survey at the Chicago Cultural Center, his reaction was not entirely favorable. One of the steel constructions, a jewelry box decorated with a human face, badly needed cleaning. Worse, the other two pieces -- a small cross and a vase, both covered with the geometric patternsthat
OLD MOTELS - ROADSIDE ART ONLINE - INTERESTING IDEAS Roadside Art Online: Old Motels. Like the crossroads at Pruner's Cottages, multiple points of appeal intersect in these postcards. The quaintness is about equal in the cards themselves and the motels they picture -- both associated with memories of road trips long past, where the first thing you did after checking in was rush to the roomto
BIG SOME DAY: THE WOOLSEY BOTTLE CAP In the Woolseys’ own time, what seemed to most interest the world was the huge number of bottle caps required to create the some 400 objects that newspaper articles reported in 1971. Volume was the primary theme of an article in the Waterloo Courier — one piece used30,000 caps!
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: FRANK CAPRA'S DARK SIDE All is not so rosy in It's A Wonderful Life. When Frank Capra died, it was inevitable that It's a Wonderful Life would be trotted out to demonstrate his life-affirming, joyous love of people.. The film is a classic, even if it is wildly overexposed, and even if a fluke of paperwork is mostly responsible for its star status. Had its copyright been properly renewed in 1975, It's a Wonderful Life OUTSIDER ART, VERNACULAR ART, ROADSIDE ART, ODDBALL CULTURE Interesting Ideas is about Outsider art, vernacular culture,: roadside art and architecture, pop culture at the margins, occasional politicaldespair
REVIEW: GATECRASHERS Gatecrashers might best be described in terms more typical of a page-turner novel than an art book—it’s a story of tragedy and triumph, of drama and historic happenings.. The overarching tragedy is the opportunity lost in the 1930s to open up the definition INTERESTING IDEAS: WHY LIFE IS BETTER NOW Recent golden ages all look irrevocably past: literature, movies, TV, politics, unionism, whatever. They all were more interesting and more fruitful some other time. Now literacy is in the toilet. Every Bond film is not as good as Goldfinger. The Simpsons has gone downhill. Non-entities dominate in Washington. OLD MOTELS - ROADSIDE ART ONLINE - INTERESTING IDEAS Roadside Art Online: Old Motels. Like the crossroads at Pruner's Cottages, multiple points of appeal intersect in these postcards. The quaintness is about equal in the cards themselves and the motels they picture -- both associated with memories of road trips long past, where the first thing you did after checking in was rush to the roomto
CLASSIC DINERS
Classic Diners — A Gallery. The art of vintage diners, via their promotional matchbooks, plus a smattering of little grills. I like the contrast between clip-art images and custom renderings. Meanwhile, hop over to John Baeder’s site for his spectacular renditions of matchcover diners, including the Yankee Flyer. Matchbooks. THE OUTSIDER ART PAGES: FOLK AND OUTSIDER ART Joe "40,000" Murphy: famous Chicago character, creator of a marvelous photographic environment. Roy Rogers and Joe "40,000" Murphy. Like all the photos, this was once part of a photospread that consumed much of Murphy's house as well as a five-car garage across ERNIE BUSHMILLER'S COMIC PERFECTION: HOW TO READ NANCY It was my way of committing to a purer sort of art than the antithetical Doonesbury. To summarize: • Doonesbury was hip, Nancy square. • Doonesbury had messages, Nancy gags. • Doonesbury was hippie, Nancy punk (proto punk, technically). • Doonesbury was more or less representational, Nancy abstract. • Doonesbury’scharacters were au
ROSEHILL: MANY HOPES LIE BURIED Rosehill is the largest cemetery in Chicago, and one of the most beautiful. In part it’s the setting, with its ponds and mature trees. But it’s also a function of the many wealthy people buried there. One thing rich people are good for is leaving behind beautiful mausoleums and monuments. At first glance they can seem to representan excess
MAGICAL MEDIOCRITY: HARRY POTTER AND THE SECRET OF The Ministry of Magic in the early books is comical with its paperwork and trivial rules. As the book goes on, though, that government becomes more pernicious and ultimately a case study in the evolution from pettiness to evil. As for house elves, wizards of the better sort seem to frown on their mistreatment. "SUKIYAKI": THE SWEETEST SONG EVER? The sweetness is a function not just of the tune, but also the original Japanese words, essentially, “I look up as I walk so that the tears won’t fall.” (Different from the much later English version concocted by Taste of Honey, which has its own virtues.) Although the poignant heartbreak is almost universally interpreted asromantic
OUTSIDER ART, VERNACULAR ART, ROADSIDE ART, ODDBALL CULTURETHE LATEST STUFFOUTSIDER ART PAGESROADSIDE ARTTHE IDEA BARNWHAT IS OUTSIDERARTTHE MANSARDS
Interesting Ideas is about Outsider art, vernacular culture,: roadside art and architecture, pop culture at the margins, occasional politicaldespair
THE CROSS GARDEN
W.C. Rice’s cross garden art environment in Prattville, Alabama, near Montgomery, was one of the nation’s fiercest roadside views. The drift of his message was crystal clear, although the specifics were sometimes arcane. MUFFLER PEOPLE: THE LAST AMERICAN FOLK ART Calling muffler people “the last American folk art” may be a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. If you accept a fairly rigorous definition of folk art, much of what is WHAT IS OUTSIDER ART? Like many of us, I’ve learned a lot since then, and the recent death of Roger Cardinal, whose 1972 book “Outsider Art” originated the term, made me consider revising the essay.It has a bit of history about it, at least for me, though, so I’ve left it as is. INTERESTING IDEAS: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW: GENTILES IN The Dick Van Dyke Show: Gentiles in Paradise. You didn't notice that Dick Van Dyke was one of the most Jewish shows ever seen on network TV, at least until Seinfeld ? Granted, only Buddy was officially Jewish. (Remember the episode when they thought he was having an affair; it really was bar mitzvah lessons). But consider the milieuthe show's
MORE OF THE SWEETEST SONG If you like the Sukiyaki song (Ue o Muite Aruko) as much as I do, check out this playlist from WMBR in Cambridge, the MIT radio station.. On his Subject to Change program, Patrick Bryant goes deep with multiple versions of one song. UNSEALED: THE ART OF THE BOTTLE CAP Unsealed: The Art of the Bottle Cap. It may seem odd that discarded caps from beer and soda containers inspired a quintessentially 20th century folk craft. But crown caps, patented in 1892, were new to the century, and as used bottle caps accumulated, creative individualsstarted to
STANLEY SZWARC'S MASTERFUL STAINLESS STEEL SCULPTURE When Stanley Szwarc saw three of his creations in an outsider art survey at the Chicago Cultural Center, his reaction was not entirely favorable. One of the steel constructions, a jewelry box decorated with a human face, badly needed cleaning. Worse, the other two pieces -- a small cross and a vase, both covered with the geometric patternsthat
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: FRANK CAPRA'S DARK SIDE All is not so rosy in It's A Wonderful Life. When Frank Capra died, it was inevitable that It's a Wonderful Life would be trotted out to demonstrate his life-affirming, joyous love of people.. The film is a classic, even if it is wildly overexposed, and even if a fluke of paperwork is mostly responsible for its star status. Had its copyright been properly renewed in 1975, It's a Wonderful Life JOE 40,000 MURPHY'S OUTSIDER PHOTOGRAPHY One picture from 1949 shows 40,000 and, according to the caption, "a small -- a very small -- portion of his souvenirs, collected in 27 years of ushering everywhere crowds gather." As with Henry Darger's work, a strong sexual component comes through in much of Murphy's creation, though opposite in tone. Darger's darkness is clear in hisimages
OUTSIDER ART, VERNACULAR ART, ROADSIDE ART, ODDBALL CULTURETHE LATEST STUFFOUTSIDER ART PAGESROADSIDE ARTTHE IDEA BARNWHAT IS OUTSIDERARTTHE MANSARDS
Interesting Ideas is about Outsider art, vernacular culture,: roadside art and architecture, pop culture at the margins, occasional politicaldespair
THE CROSS GARDEN
W.C. Rice’s cross garden art environment in Prattville, Alabama, near Montgomery, was one of the nation’s fiercest roadside views. The drift of his message was crystal clear, although the specifics were sometimes arcane. WHAT IS OUTSIDER ART? Like many of us, I’ve learned a lot since then, and the recent death of Roger Cardinal, whose 1972 book “Outsider Art” originated the term, made me consider revising the essay.It has a bit of history about it, at least for me, though, so I’ve left it as is. MUFFLER PEOPLE: THE LAST AMERICAN FOLK ART Calling muffler people “the last American folk art” may be a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. If you accept a fairly rigorous definition of folk art, much of what is INTERESTING IDEAS: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW: GENTILES IN The Dick Van Dyke Show: Gentiles in Paradise. You didn't notice that Dick Van Dyke was one of the most Jewish shows ever seen on network TV, at least until Seinfeld ? Granted, only Buddy was officially Jewish. (Remember the episode when they thought he was having an affair; it really was bar mitzvah lessons). But consider the milieuthe show's
MORE OF THE SWEETEST SONG If you like the Sukiyaki song (Ue o Muite Aruko) as much as I do, check out this playlist from WMBR in Cambridge, the MIT radio station.. On his Subject to Change program, Patrick Bryant goes deep with multiple versions of one song. UNSEALED: THE ART OF THE BOTTLE CAP Unsealed: The Art of the Bottle Cap. It may seem odd that discarded caps from beer and soda containers inspired a quintessentially 20th century folk craft. But crown caps, patented in 1892, were new to the century, and as used bottle caps accumulated, creative individualsstarted to
STANLEY SZWARC'S MASTERFUL STAINLESS STEEL SCULPTURE When Stanley Szwarc saw three of his creations in an outsider art survey at the Chicago Cultural Center, his reaction was not entirely favorable. One of the steel constructions, a jewelry box decorated with a human face, badly needed cleaning. Worse, the other two pieces -- a small cross and a vase, both covered with the geometric patternsthat
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: FRANK CAPRA'S DARK SIDE All is not so rosy in It's A Wonderful Life. When Frank Capra died, it was inevitable that It's a Wonderful Life would be trotted out to demonstrate his life-affirming, joyous love of people.. The film is a classic, even if it is wildly overexposed, and even if a fluke of paperwork is mostly responsible for its star status. Had its copyright been properly renewed in 1975, It's a Wonderful Life JOE 40,000 MURPHY'S OUTSIDER PHOTOGRAPHY One picture from 1949 shows 40,000 and, according to the caption, "a small -- a very small -- portion of his souvenirs, collected in 27 years of ushering everywhere crowds gather." As with Henry Darger's work, a strong sexual component comes through in much of Murphy's creation, though opposite in tone. Darger's darkness is clear in hisimages
INTERESTING IDEAS: WHY LIFE IS BETTER NOW Recent golden ages all look irrevocably past: literature, movies, TV, politics, unionism, whatever. They all were more interesting and more fruitful some other time. Now literacy is in the toilet. Every Bond film is not as good as Goldfinger. The Simpsons has gone downhill. Non-entities dominate in Washington. ROADSIDE ART ONLINE: ART ENVIRONMENTS Roadside Art Online: Art Environments. A selection of great art environments from the American roadside, and abroad as well: over the top, deeply personal and intensely creative. Whirligig Gardens: Vollis Simpson, R.A. Miller, Paul Hefti, San Diego and Cairo, Illinois. Joe Wiser’s Bottle Cap Inn in Miami was featured in Ripley’s BelieveIt
CLASSIC DINERS
Classic Diners — A Gallery. The art of vintage diners, via their promotional matchbooks, plus a smattering of little grills. I like the contrast between clip-art images and custom renderings. Meanwhile, hop over to John Baeder’s site for his spectacular renditions of matchcover diners, including the Yankee Flyer. Matchbooks. GROTTO OF THE REDEMPTION Grotto of the Redemption — Redemptive Greatness. Father Paul Dobberstein’s Grotto of the Redemption in West Bend, Iowa, is on the way to nowhere, but the right way to go: It’s one of the most spectacular places in the world. Dobberstein was a parish priest witha
THOMASSON: THE LIFE-CHANGING HYPERART Kaya Press, 416 pages, 2010. ISBN: 978-1885030467. Paperback, $17.95. Why did it take me half a dozen years to discover this life-changing book, introducing a concept that fundamentally enriches my relationship to the built environment? The idea is the Thomasson, proposed as a form of “hyperart.”. More or less a mashup of foundart
INTERESTING IDEAS: WARM WORDS FOR DON KNOTTS Das Limpett is, of course, Don Knotts, who befuddled the Germans as the nebbish-turned-fish in The Incredible Mr. Limpett, the first movie built around the painfully nervous persona he honed on The Andy Griffith Show.. Within the moral economy of Mayberry, Knotts' geekiness was comfortably comical, even lovable, and always fitting.Indeed, Barney Fife was fundamental. INTERESTING IDEAS: WHY LIFE IS BETTER NOW The fact that the blessings are so mixed is a big reason it is so hard to feel blessed. Most of the plusses listed here are environmentally extravagant and inequitably distributed among the peoples of the world, which gives one pause before proclaiming our times the besttimes ever.
SENECA: STILL WITTY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS When last heard from, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was complaining about the gym rats who worked out noisily in the baths beneath his apartment. Two thousand years later and it doesn’t appear the issue has gone away. Seneca, a philosopher and onetime tutor to the emperor Nero, thought about lots of things besides grunting showoffs, of course. BIG SOME DAY: THE WOOLSEY BOTTLE CAP In the Woolseys’ own time, what seemed to most interest the world was the huge number of bottle caps required to create the some 400 objects that newspaper articles reported in 1971. Volume was the primary theme of an article in the Waterloo Courier — one piece used30,000 caps!
JOE 40,000 MURPHY'S OUTSIDER PHOTOGRAPHY One picture from 1949 shows 40,000 and, according to the caption, "a small -- a very small -- portion of his souvenirs, collected in 27 years of ushering everywhere crowds gather." As with Henry Darger's work, a strong sexual component comes through in much of Murphy's creation, though opposite in tone. Darger's darkness is clear in hisimages
OUTSIDER ART, VERNACULAR ART, ROADSIDE ART, ODDBALL CULTURETHE LATEST STUFFOUTSIDER ART PAGESROADSIDE ARTTHE IDEA BARNWHAT IS OUTSIDERARTTHE MANSARDS
Interesting Ideas is about Outsider art, vernacular culture,: roadside art and architecture, pop culture at the margins, occasional politicaldespair
THE CROSS GARDEN
W.C. Rice’s cross garden art environment in Prattville, Alabama, near Montgomery, was one of the nation’s fiercest roadside views. The drift of his message was crystal clear, although the specifics were sometimes arcane. WHAT IS OUTSIDER ART? Like many of us, I’ve learned a lot since then, and the recent death of Roger Cardinal, whose 1972 book “Outsider Art” originated the term, made me consider revising the essay.It has a bit of history about it, at least for me, though, so I’ve left it as is. INTERESTING IDEAS: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW: GENTILES IN The Dick Van Dyke Show: Gentiles in Paradise. You didn't notice that Dick Van Dyke was one of the most Jewish shows ever seen on network TV, at least until Seinfeld ? Granted, only Buddy was officially Jewish. (Remember the episode when they thought he was having an affair; it really was bar mitzvah lessons). But consider the milieuthe show's
UNSEALED: THE ART OF THE BOTTLE CAP Unsealed: The Art of the Bottle Cap. It may seem odd that discarded caps from beer and soda containers inspired a quintessentially 20th century folk craft. But crown caps, patented in 1892, were new to the century, and as used bottle caps accumulated, creative individualsstarted to
MORE OF THE SWEETEST SONG If you like the Sukiyaki song (Ue o Muite Aruko) as much as I do, check out this playlist from WMBR in Cambridge, the MIT radio station.. On his Subject to Change program, Patrick Bryant goes deep with multiple versions of one song. THE OUTSIDER ART PAGES: FOLK AND OUTSIDER ART Joe "40,000" Murphy: famous Chicago character, creator of a marvelous photographic environment. Roy Rogers and Joe "40,000" Murphy. Like all the photos, this was once part of a photospread that consumed much of Murphy's house as well as a five-car garage across OLD MOTELS - ROADSIDE ART ONLINE - INTERESTING IDEAS Roadside Art Online: Old Motels. Like the crossroads at Pruner's Cottages, multiple points of appeal intersect in these postcards. The quaintness is about equal in the cards themselves and the motels they picture -- both associated with memories of road trips long past, where the first thing you did after checking in was rush to the roomto
STANLEY SZWARC'S MASTERFUL STAINLESS STEEL SCULPTURE When Stanley Szwarc saw three of his creations in an outsider art survey at the Chicago Cultural Center, his reaction was not entirely favorable. One of the steel constructions, a jewelry box decorated with a human face, badly needed cleaning. Worse, the other two pieces -- a small cross and a vase, both covered with the geometric patternsthat
BIG SOME DAY: THE WOOLSEY BOTTLE CAP In the Woolseys’ own time, what seemed to most interest the world was the huge number of bottle caps required to create the some 400 objects that newspaper articles reported in 1971. Volume was the primary theme of an article in the Waterloo Courier — one piece used30,000 caps!
OUTSIDER ART, VERNACULAR ART, ROADSIDE ART, ODDBALL CULTURETHE LATEST STUFFOUTSIDER ART PAGESROADSIDE ARTTHE IDEA BARNWHAT IS OUTSIDERARTTHE MANSARDS
Interesting Ideas is about Outsider art, vernacular culture,: roadside art and architecture, pop culture at the margins, occasional politicaldespair
THE CROSS GARDEN
W.C. Rice’s cross garden art environment in Prattville, Alabama, near Montgomery, was one of the nation’s fiercest roadside views. The drift of his message was crystal clear, although the specifics were sometimes arcane. WHAT IS OUTSIDER ART? Like many of us, I’ve learned a lot since then, and the recent death of Roger Cardinal, whose 1972 book “Outsider Art” originated the term, made me consider revising the essay.It has a bit of history about it, at least for me, though, so I’ve left it as is. INTERESTING IDEAS: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW: GENTILES IN The Dick Van Dyke Show: Gentiles in Paradise. You didn't notice that Dick Van Dyke was one of the most Jewish shows ever seen on network TV, at least until Seinfeld ? Granted, only Buddy was officially Jewish. (Remember the episode when they thought he was having an affair; it really was bar mitzvah lessons). But consider the milieuthe show's
UNSEALED: THE ART OF THE BOTTLE CAP Unsealed: The Art of the Bottle Cap. It may seem odd that discarded caps from beer and soda containers inspired a quintessentially 20th century folk craft. But crown caps, patented in 1892, were new to the century, and as used bottle caps accumulated, creative individualsstarted to
MORE OF THE SWEETEST SONG If you like the Sukiyaki song (Ue o Muite Aruko) as much as I do, check out this playlist from WMBR in Cambridge, the MIT radio station.. On his Subject to Change program, Patrick Bryant goes deep with multiple versions of one song. THE OUTSIDER ART PAGES: FOLK AND OUTSIDER ART Joe "40,000" Murphy: famous Chicago character, creator of a marvelous photographic environment. Roy Rogers and Joe "40,000" Murphy. Like all the photos, this was once part of a photospread that consumed much of Murphy's house as well as a five-car garage across OLD MOTELS - ROADSIDE ART ONLINE - INTERESTING IDEAS Roadside Art Online: Old Motels. Like the crossroads at Pruner's Cottages, multiple points of appeal intersect in these postcards. The quaintness is about equal in the cards themselves and the motels they picture -- both associated with memories of road trips long past, where the first thing you did after checking in was rush to the roomto
STANLEY SZWARC'S MASTERFUL STAINLESS STEEL SCULPTURE When Stanley Szwarc saw three of his creations in an outsider art survey at the Chicago Cultural Center, his reaction was not entirely favorable. One of the steel constructions, a jewelry box decorated with a human face, badly needed cleaning. Worse, the other two pieces -- a small cross and a vase, both covered with the geometric patternsthat
BIG SOME DAY: THE WOOLSEY BOTTLE CAP In the Woolseys’ own time, what seemed to most interest the world was the huge number of bottle caps required to create the some 400 objects that newspaper articles reported in 1971. Volume was the primary theme of an article in the Waterloo Courier — one piece used30,000 caps!
ROADSIDE ART ONLINE: ART ENVIRONMENTS Roadside Art Online: Art Environments. A selection of great art environments from the American roadside, and abroad as well: over the top, deeply personal and intensely creative. Whirligig Gardens: Vollis Simpson, R.A. Miller, Paul Hefti, San Diego and Cairo, Illinois. Joe Wiser’s Bottle Cap Inn in Miami was featured in Ripley’s BelieveIt
INTERESTING IDEAS: WHY LIFE IS BETTER NOW Recent golden ages all look irrevocably past: literature, movies, TV, politics, unionism, whatever. They all were more interesting and more fruitful some other time. Now literacy is in the toilet. Every Bond film is not as good as Goldfinger. The Simpsons has gone downhill. Non-entities dominate in Washington.CLASSIC DINERS
Classic Diners — A Gallery. The art of vintage diners, via their promotional matchbooks, plus a smattering of little grills. I like the contrast between clip-art images and custom renderings. Meanwhile, hop over to John Baeder’s site for his spectacular renditions of matchcover diners, including the Yankee Flyer. Matchbooks. CRAZY STORE NAMES: ODD COMBINATIONS Fluff ‘Em Buff ‘Em Stuff ‘Em (taxidermy/car repair/beauty shop) Godlove’s Liquors. Hardware and Pain. Harry Little Pizza. Hiram’s Guns & Spirits. House of Beef/House of Tikes. Liquor, Guns and Ammo. The Lord Jesus Christ If I be Lifted Up Chair Caning and Variety Store. Lucky Pork Store. MAGICAL MEDIOCRITY: HARRY POTTER AND THE SECRET OF The Ministry of Magic in the early books is comical with its paperwork and trivial rules. As the book goes on, though, that government becomes more pernicious and ultimately a case study in the evolution from pettiness to evil. As for house elves, wizards of the better sort seem to frown on their mistreatment. INTERESTING IDEAS: WARM WORDS FOR DON KNOTTS Das Limpett is, of course, Don Knotts, who befuddled the Germans as the nebbish-turned-fish in The Incredible Mr. Limpett, the first movie built around the painfully nervous persona he honed on The Andy Griffith Show.. Within the moral economy of Mayberry, Knotts' geekiness was comfortably comical, even lovable, and always fitting.Indeed, Barney Fife was fundamental. GROTTO OF THE REDEMPTION Grotto of the Redemption — Redemptive Greatness. Father Paul Dobberstein’s Grotto of the Redemption in West Bend, Iowa, is on the way to nowhere, but the right way to go: It’s one of the most spectacular places in the world. Dobberstein was a parish priest witha
ROSEHILL: MANY HOPES LIE BURIED Rosehill is the largest cemetery in Chicago, and one of the most beautiful. In part it’s the setting, with its ponds and mature trees. But it’s also a function of the many wealthy people buried there. One thing rich people are good for is leaving behind beautiful mausoleums and monuments. At first glance they can seem to representan excess
ERNIE BUSHMILLER'S COMIC PERFECTION: HOW TO READ NANCY It was my way of committing to a purer sort of art than the antithetical Doonesbury. To summarize: • Doonesbury was hip, Nancy square. • Doonesbury had messages, Nancy gags. • Doonesbury was hippie, Nancy punk (proto punk, technically). • Doonesbury was more or less representational, Nancy abstract. • Doonesbury’scharacters were au
THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JOE "40,000" MURPHY (PHOTO 58) An even more interesting baseball vignette, from a series of pictures with a very young Marilyn Monroe at Comiskey Park. Buddy Rogers was married to Mary Pickford. OUTSIDER ART, VERNACULAR ART, ROADSIDE ART, ODDBALL CULTURETHE LATEST STUFFOUTSIDER ART PAGESROADSIDE ARTTHE IDEA BARNWHAT IS OUTSIDERARTTHE MANSARDS
Interesting Ideas is about Outsider art, vernacular culture,: roadside art and architecture, pop culture at the margins, occasional politicaldespair
THE CROSS GARDEN
W.C. Rice’s cross garden art environment in Prattville, Alabama, near Montgomery, was one of the nation’s fiercest roadside views. The drift of his message was crystal clear, although the specifics were sometimes arcane. INTERESTING IDEAS: WHY LIFE IS BETTER NOW Recent golden ages all look irrevocably past: literature, movies, TV, politics, unionism, whatever. They all were more interesting and more fruitful some other time. Now literacy is in the toilet. Every Bond film is not as good as Goldfinger. The Simpsons has gone downhill. Non-entities dominate in Washington. INTERESTING IDEAS: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW: GENTILES IN The Dick Van Dyke Show: Gentiles in Paradise. You didn't notice that Dick Van Dyke was one of the most Jewish shows ever seen on network TV, at least until Seinfeld ? Granted, only Buddy was officially Jewish. (Remember the episode when they thought he was having an affair; it really was bar mitzvah lessons). But consider the milieuthe show's
WHAT IS OUTSIDER ART? Like many of us, I’ve learned a lot since then, and the recent death of Roger Cardinal, whose 1972 book “Outsider Art” originated the term, made me consider revising the essay.It has a bit of history about it, at least for me, though, so I’ve left it as is. MORE OF THE SWEETEST SONG If you like the Sukiyaki song (Ue o Muite Aruko) as much as I do, check out this playlist from WMBR in Cambridge, the MIT radio station.. On his Subject to Change program, Patrick Bryant goes deep with multiple versions of one song. STANLEY SZWARC'S MASTERFUL STAINLESS STEEL SCULPTURE When Stanley Szwarc saw three of his creations in an outsider art survey at the Chicago Cultural Center, his reaction was not entirely favorable. One of the steel constructions, a jewelry box decorated with a human face, badly needed cleaning. Worse, the other two pieces -- a small cross and a vase, both covered with the geometric patternsthat
UNSEALED: THE ART OF THE BOTTLE CAP Unsealed: The Art of the Bottle Cap. It may seem odd that discarded caps from beer and soda containers inspired a quintessentially 20th century folk craft. But crown caps, patented in 1892, were new to the century, and as used bottle caps accumulated, creative individualsstarted to
ROSEHILL: MANY HOPES LIE BURIED Rosehill is the largest cemetery in Chicago, and one of the most beautiful. In part it’s the setting, with its ponds and mature trees. But it’s also a function of the many wealthy people buried there. One thing rich people are good for is leaving behind beautiful mausoleums and monuments. At first glance they can seem to representan excess
SENECA: STILL WITTY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS When last heard from, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was complaining about the gym rats who worked out noisily in the baths beneath his apartment. Two thousand years later and it doesn’t appear the issue has gone away. Seneca, a philosopher and onetime tutor to the emperor Nero, thought about lots of things besides grunting showoffs, of course. OUTSIDER ART, VERNACULAR ART, ROADSIDE ART, ODDBALL CULTURETHE LATEST STUFFOUTSIDER ART PAGESROADSIDE ARTTHE IDEA BARNWHAT IS OUTSIDERARTTHE MANSARDS
Interesting Ideas is about Outsider art, vernacular culture,: roadside art and architecture, pop culture at the margins, occasional politicaldespair
THE CROSS GARDEN
W.C. Rice’s cross garden art environment in Prattville, Alabama, near Montgomery, was one of the nation’s fiercest roadside views. The drift of his message was crystal clear, although the specifics were sometimes arcane. INTERESTING IDEAS: WHY LIFE IS BETTER NOW Recent golden ages all look irrevocably past: literature, movies, TV, politics, unionism, whatever. They all were more interesting and more fruitful some other time. Now literacy is in the toilet. Every Bond film is not as good as Goldfinger. The Simpsons has gone downhill. Non-entities dominate in Washington. INTERESTING IDEAS: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW: GENTILES IN The Dick Van Dyke Show: Gentiles in Paradise. You didn't notice that Dick Van Dyke was one of the most Jewish shows ever seen on network TV, at least until Seinfeld ? Granted, only Buddy was officially Jewish. (Remember the episode when they thought he was having an affair; it really was bar mitzvah lessons). But consider the milieuthe show's
WHAT IS OUTSIDER ART? Like many of us, I’ve learned a lot since then, and the recent death of Roger Cardinal, whose 1972 book “Outsider Art” originated the term, made me consider revising the essay.It has a bit of history about it, at least for me, though, so I’ve left it as is. MORE OF THE SWEETEST SONG If you like the Sukiyaki song (Ue o Muite Aruko) as much as I do, check out this playlist from WMBR in Cambridge, the MIT radio station.. On his Subject to Change program, Patrick Bryant goes deep with multiple versions of one song. STANLEY SZWARC'S MASTERFUL STAINLESS STEEL SCULPTURE When Stanley Szwarc saw three of his creations in an outsider art survey at the Chicago Cultural Center, his reaction was not entirely favorable. One of the steel constructions, a jewelry box decorated with a human face, badly needed cleaning. Worse, the other two pieces -- a small cross and a vase, both covered with the geometric patternsthat
UNSEALED: THE ART OF THE BOTTLE CAP Unsealed: The Art of the Bottle Cap. It may seem odd that discarded caps from beer and soda containers inspired a quintessentially 20th century folk craft. But crown caps, patented in 1892, were new to the century, and as used bottle caps accumulated, creative individualsstarted to
ROSEHILL: MANY HOPES LIE BURIED Rosehill is the largest cemetery in Chicago, and one of the most beautiful. In part it’s the setting, with its ponds and mature trees. But it’s also a function of the many wealthy people buried there. One thing rich people are good for is leaving behind beautiful mausoleums and monuments. At first glance they can seem to representan excess
SENECA: STILL WITTY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS When last heard from, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was complaining about the gym rats who worked out noisily in the baths beneath his apartment. Two thousand years later and it doesn’t appear the issue has gone away. Seneca, a philosopher and onetime tutor to the emperor Nero, thought about lots of things besides grunting showoffs, of course. LIVING THE SKEPTICAL LIFE Living the Skeptical Life. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. — Bertrand Russell. That uncertainty is an unyielding fact of existence is hardly controversial. It’s in the wisdom of the ages, after all — we’re here today, gone the next,who
A VINTAGE HARDWARE FANTASIA You don’t have to be obsessed with nuts and bolts to appreciate the renderings in the 1920 Bethlehem Steel Co. Bolts, Nuts, Rivets catalog. They’re finely detailed and geometrically perfect, floating on their hand-drawn backgrounds.CLASSIC DINERS
Classic Diners — A Gallery. The art of vintage diners, via their promotional matchbooks, plus a smattering of little grills. I like the contrast between clip-art images and custom renderings. Meanwhile, hop over to John Baeder’s site for his spectacular renditions of matchcover diners, including the Yankee Flyer. Matchbooks.FAY'S FOUNTAIN
Fay’s Fountain — Vernacular in the Park. Another Iowa vernacular masterpiece built by Father Paul Dobberstein, creator of the Grotto of the Redemption. Dobberstein was commissioned to built this memorial, officially called the Liberty Fountain, in honor of Fay Hessian, a young girl who died from tuberculosis in 1912. The fountain was THE OUTSIDER ART PAGES: FOLK AND OUTSIDER ART Joe "40,000" Murphy: famous Chicago character, creator of a marvelous photographic environment. Roy Rogers and Joe "40,000" Murphy. Like all the photos, this was once part of a photospread that consumed much of Murphy's house as well as a five-car garage across SENECA: STILL WITTY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS When last heard from, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was complaining about the gym rats who worked out noisily in the baths beneath his apartment. Two thousand years later and it doesn’t appear the issue has gone away. Seneca, a philosopher and onetime tutor to the emperor Nero, thought about lots of things besides grunting showoffs, of course. INTERESTING IDEAS: BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO PROMPT PEOPLE Better Late: Bad Thing Happen to Prompt People. Bad Thing Happen to Prompt People. Bad things happen to prompt people. This is a fact half the world hasn't a clue about, because they're never there earlyenough to notice.
BIG SOME DAY: THE WOOLSEY BOTTLE CAP In the Woolseys’ own time, what seemed to most interest the world was the huge number of bottle caps required to create the some 400 objects that newspaper articles reported in 1971. Volume was the primary theme of an article in the Waterloo Courier — one piece used30,000 caps!
THE FAMOUS BOTTLE CAP INN The Famous Bottle Cap Inn. Just added: a recently acquired Bottle Cap Inn postcard showing a different angle on the exterior. Click here fora full
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