Comments on: Sideshow Bob

By: The Modesto Kid

The Modesto Kid — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:00:52 +0000

Vic does a very nice oral history of Hubert's Museum.

By: gmoke

gmoke — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:19:08 +0000

Hubert’s Museum is mentioned in at least one of Lenny Bruce’s routines and, if memory serves, was also important to the NYC Beats.

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany is a beautifully written remembrance of Times Square from the late 60s into Disneyfication.

By: Rich B.

Rich B. — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:54:48 +0000

How disappointing. From the title, I was hoping it would be a book about those crazy people who keep saying that society is going to end next week due to “Peak Oil.”

By: Greg Gibson

Greg Gibson — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:43:40 +0000

Thank you for your kind words about my book, Hubert’s Freaks. Those interested in the material it contains may enjoy a visit to the book’s website, hubertsfreaks.com, which contains audio of a 1960s “talker” trying to lure customers into his Times Squar flea circus, video of one of the performers discussing his love life and his association with Diane Arbus, and many images not published in the book.

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:06:42 +0000

Par for the course at CT.

Well Seth, if you don’t like it here, you know what you can do.

By: seth edenbaum

seth edenbaum — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:42:30 +0000

In passing he gives us some interesting insights into how the market for art photography got started (a combination of scarcity of other art objects giving rise to a need for new outlets for the connoiseur’s passion and institutional hype from curators like John Szarkowski at MoMa and critics like Sontag).

So you say…
Without being much of a fan of Arbus or Sontag, that’s about as condescending a description of connoisseurship, and the arts in general, as anything I’ve ever read.
Par for the course at CT.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:38:59 +0000

You mean “caveat venditor” I think.

Sounds like an interesting read.