After a near-death experience in 1998, folk artist Stephen Huneck built a chapel on “Dog Mountain” in Vermont. He wanted to celebrate the spiritual bond humans have with dogs. On top of the white steeple is a Labrador Retriever with wings, while the interior is decorated with carved wooden dogs...
“My favorite exhibit of all time is the cloud room at the Andy Warhol Museum. In college, because we had free admission, if I needed to feel grounded I would go and lay on the floor in there for hours. It’s peaceful and so beautiful in its simplicity.” Did you...
Paul Bunyan is a mythological lumberjack who somehow got his own REAL holiday every June 28. Statues of Paul and Babe the Blue Ox are all over the place from Bemidji, Minnesota (I hope I bump into Frances McDormand and Steve Buscemi if I ever make my way up there)...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S.by Nam June Paik, 1995. National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Once lived in an apartment full of cockroaches, which was like that from the moment I moved in, so I have a special place in my heart for exterminators. My mind is still ingrained with the image of a bunch of dead roaches stuck to an adhesive trap being pulled...
This next one isn’t a museum, but it probably should be in one (apparently it has graced a few art galleries, so I have no need to worry). If you find yourself with a desperate need to go to the toilet, it’s best you not walk through the central district...
I’m sad to admit this to the world but I have never stepped inside the Busy Beaver Button’s storefront on Armitage Avenue here in Chicago. I need to fix this problem. In the meantime, I can satisfy all my button needs by looking over their newly launched Button Museum website....
Next to two African American cemeteries is African Village in America, the home of Joe Minter and his wife Hilda of Birmingham (emphasis on the ham), Alabama. Standing since 1989 when Joe had a vision from God, the theme of the place is African-American history if you can get past...
Modern art has become so modern that it now needs to be displayed in a place few people go to…yeah, I’m talking about the bottom of the sea. In Cancun, Mexico artist Jason deCaires Taylor has an installation at the Museum of Underwater Modern Art. The “underwater” was included in...
If you lack a green thumb, then follow the footsteps of Canadian Joe Delaney. After many attempts to grow a garden in his Cap le Moine, Novia Scotia home, Joe and his son Chester planted a scarecrow garden. Travelers began to stop and admire their creations, so the garden grew...
