Interesting Ideas

When people talk about ghost signs they usually mean wall signs advertising a brand or business that may or may not still be around but was once promoted in a grand, or at least large-scale, manner.

Here is the new crop of artwork from the June 2026 carving workshop at Promontory Point, sponsored by the Promontory Point Conservancy.

Visually, LA is a great place to visit.

The strip of land that runs along Lake Michigan from the entrance to Jackson Harbor at 64th Street, behind La Rabida Hospital, then down to 67th Street is home to more than 1,000 rock carvings.

Chicago’s lakefront rock carvings are unique in the world for their quantity and their extent along a modern shoreline.

The era of Washington, D.C., hot dog wagons featuring hand-painted signs is nearly over.

Some highlights from the 2026 edition of New York’s Outsider Art Fair.

If you took the cutoff from Highway 61 into Vicksburg, Mississippi, and had need of 1. sundries 2. spiritual uplift or 3. a powerful folk-art environment, you could stop at Margaret’s Grocery.

After Vollis Simpson died in 2013, his massive back-country whirligig garden in Lucama, North Carolina, was relocated to the center of nearby Wilson.

Q.J.