Man Made: Nothing New Under the SunA coin, a lever, and two thousand years of selling things to strangers It stands about chest-high to a
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The tower sits on an octagon of red brick, a riveted steel drum shedding white paint in long rust tears. At its foot, a big
The West End Kid Who Drew Spider-Man, and the Walls That Remember Him A freight car sits on the tracks behind a concrete wall, and
Man Made: Chrome, Checkerboard, and the Car The sign is shaped like a cross because of arithmetic. Sheldon “Red” Chaney meant to letter it HAMBURGER,
A Love Letter in Iron Money, and the Highway That Tore the Envelope If you’ve driven down Menoher Boulevard into Johnstown, you’ve passed it —
A Stone Amplifier from the New Deal Era In Roxbury Park, on the western edge of Johnstown’s urban basin, sits one of the most unusual
The Greenhouse and All the Rest Oldfields is usually introduced as a house. Sometimes it is framed as an estate. Sometimes as an art museum
This is an imagined monologue. I’m borrowing a modern habit—comedians and entertainers sitting on talk shows, reminiscing about the greats, circling their influences with equal
Shelby Kelley Records “Raggedy Man” — An Ode to Todd Snider Some songs aren’t written to chase a moment. They’re written because a moment hit
A Monument to the Age When We Built to Last If you want to understand Indiana—really understand it—don’t start with the highways or the cornfields.
Set slightly off the main flow of Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse, the Rideout Fountain is the kind of public artwork that doesn’t announce itself
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What Happens When We Stop Starving Our Artists
A Long-Form Thought Experiment About AI, Creativity, and the Case for Universal Basic Income There’s a moment every artist knows, whether they say it out
There are towns where public art feels like it fell out of a grant application — stainless steel, vaguely geometric, installed by a committee that