Paradise Garden is recognized by art historians, art museums, art critics, government agencies, and preservationists as an exceptional example of a largely intact 20th century outsider art environment. It showcases the life’s work of renowned artist and preacher Howard Finster, a self proclaimed “Man of Visions,” who would later create...
I doubt anyone will disagree (except the Walmart family) that there is nothing scarier than an evil corporation. But what about faceless corporate goddesses? Sitting atop a Philip Johnson-designed office building on the corner of Kearny and California Streets in San Francisco, twelve ghostly statues, wrapped in long cloth garments,...
So here are some more photographs from my archive, this time from the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Anyone following this blog for a long time probably already knows of my interest in observing museum visitors (aka perfect strangers) as they look at art. It’s probably one of my favourite things...
Believe it or not, but the thousands of scarecrow-like figures that stand creepily in a field in Finland that I told you about last week have some competition in Latvia. Yes, a terrifying collection of figures stand randomly in the center of the historic wine-making town of Sabile. No one...
There is an American girl I know who thinks she’s living in a Jane Austen novel. She might’ve been a wee bit disappointed to find out England is full of chavs and neds and not gentlemen dressed like Mr. Darcy, but that didn’t stop her delusions. Anyway, she would probably...
Pay a visit to the world’s only Fan Museum next time you’re in Greenwich. They have a collection of over 3,500 antique fans with some dating back 1,000 years.
Bronze sculpture by artist Cornelis Zitman seen at the Beelden aan Zee Museum in the Netherlands.
With his first bottled ship made at the age of sixteen, Sailor Peter Jacobsen found a hobby that took over his life for the next seventy years. Several trips around the world will do that to a person. When Old Peter died in 1960 (I am assuming he is buried...
Believe it or not, I know a few people who are not hipsters collecting paint by numbers ironically but actually think that shit is real art (I may or may not be related to these people or live upstairs from one of them). Not to sound like an art snob,...
This next museum might blow you away, like, literally. Chicago might be called the Windy City, but the seaport city of Trieste actually deserves the title. Although the city is well known for its history and gorgeous architecture, Trieste is also affected by a chilly north-easterly wind called Bora, which...
