Some projects come and go, but these Howard Finster inspired self-portraits have been a staple with my 3rd graders every year. I hope they keep these and look back them ten years from now!
Yesterday I visited Paradise Garden. Created by Howard Finster after God spoke to him and said to spread the gospel through art. Here he would turn his sermons into paintings and sculptures. You might recognize his work from album covers he did for The Talking Heads and R.E.M.
The Reverend Howard Finster was a visionary outsider artist. His work has long fascinated me. So thrilled to have found a signed print by this OG visionary artist.
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Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy.” I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.
There’s a movie about me opening soon called A Complete Unknown (what a title!). Timothee Chalamet is starring in the lead role. Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me. The film’s taken from Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric – a book that came out in 2015. It’s a fantastic retelling of events from the early ‘60s that led up to the fiasco at Newport. After you’ve seen the movie read the book.