"I hate stupid city ordinances. I won't tolerate them".
Posted on 03/01/2020 6:51:19 AM PST by rktman
I like the mural, it actually has artistic merit. His employee has some talent. It’s got a very nice Thomas Hart Benton vibe, he of WPA fame during the Depression.
"I hate stupid city ordinances. I won't tolerate them".
That would be even more of a hurdle for the owners. And not just for the process of plan submitall, review, permitting, inspections, approvals, and finals for the new enclosed area. Based on the location of the mural I’m fairly certain those parking spaces would need to be replaced. Depending on how long ago the original spaces were provided and how many new spaces would have to be added new landscaping and drainage requirements might be required.
Better going the route they did and challenge the ordinance on free speech grounds.
True, but to the right is a guy wearing a feather boa(?) so...
Mandan!
Some fun art news out of Mandan.
A nice watercolor.
Yes old news, but still fun.
https://mhsmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/48B05C12-1466-4CF3-A552-515716305141
“...York was Clark’s childhood companion. He was a slave. We know he was big. We know he was very athletic. He was a great dancer. He was devoted to William Clark. He was a great help to the expedition because he was such a curiosity. Indians who had seen white men had never seen a black man before and there’s the famous – is it Catlin or Charley Russell – and there’s the famous Charley Russell painting in the Mandan lodges of the Mandan chief trying to rub the black off of York’s skin. York had a great time on the expedition. He had, had his own rifle. He got to vote. He was a full member of the expedition. He had a, the Indians loved him, and the Indian women especially loved York and he took full advantage of that so that on many occasions York would be missing that night and he would be in the lodge with one of the Indians. Sometimes with the Indian husband standing guard while the business was completed.”
A saloon mural is a large painting of a reclining nude woman affixed to the wall behind a bar where ordering sarsaparilla gets you a proper ass-whuppin’.
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