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Roadside attractions, artin', and rural community building
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February is Lucas month on MdW Atlas, and our first piece is live: mdw.art/atlas/howare...

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In figuring out new socials, I've started two Substacks - one for Worlds Largest Things, home of the World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Version of the World's Largest Things, and one for the Garden of Eden artist-built environment open.substack.com/pub/worldsla...

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Faith Ringgold "The Flag is Bleeding" Last year, my sister and I got to see a giant retrospective of Faith Ringgold's work in Chicago, and a few years earlier, I got to hear her talk about her worth during a textiles symposium in Kansas. Powerful work, that I'm hoping inspires me to keep going.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Kansas Day!

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Exciting news from Lucas' Garden of Eden art site! They've been accepted into the National Trust's Historic Artists Homes and Studios affiliate program: savingplaces.org/press-center...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than halfway up one you don’t. -Naomi Watts

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Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time -The Alchemist

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"One day we must ask the question, 'Why are there forty million poor people in America?' ... When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy." -MLK, speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1967 #MLKDay #IHaveADream

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I know going to the Post Office is a daily ritual for many rural folks (Here in Lucas, if you live within 2 blocks of the building you don't get home delivery and get a free PO Box, which is pretty much everyone...). Here's a nice piece by a good buddy Mary Welcome on rural POs:

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Last nugget from "The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing ": A magical combination of flaws and virtues = artist's personality matrix

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From Adam Moss' "The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing"

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We're gonna have some great Popyeye and Tintin artwork coming up in 2025! 1929 works coming out of copyright: web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd....

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Just published! www.publictransformation.org/blog/intervi...

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Still one of the best quotes: Art is for anyone. It's just not for everyone. www.vulture.com/2018/11/jerr...

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Why do it right when you can do it yourself?

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Not knowing where to start is no excuse for not starting.

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And more banana news from the art world: Bananas Are Back at Art Basel Miami Beach—But No, Not the $6.2 Million Kind news.artnet.com/market/art-b...

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Pantone 17 1230 Mocha Mousse, color of the year for 2025. Thoughts?

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Yet more great insights from Adam Moss's "The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing", from his piece on Gerald Lovell

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And, I've been sent this post 6 times so far this morning :)

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A very nice #landback development in St Louis - only one pharma company to convince to remarriage a sacred mound back to the Osage! Historic Land Transfer to Osage Nation Facilitated by Arts Group news.artnet.com/art-world/hi...

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Lucy Lippard will always be my favorite art thinker. From art systems to rural environs, tourism and place to inclusion/representation, she's tops. hyperallergic.com/969843/lucy-...

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In today's mail! It may just be a small inclusion, but always nice to have the WLCoWSVoWLT show up in books focused on curious museums. It's imported!

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From Adam Moss's interview with Marc Jacobs in "The Work of Art: How something comes from nothing"

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Appropriate.

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