The Impatient Reader | The American 250
Rainey KnudsonHome of The American 250: 250 words on 250 objects, throughout 2026. Ultra-short entries on art and other things.
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156. Robert Irwin, 1° 2° 3° 4°
Robert Irwin, 1º2º3º4º, 1997. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego – La Jolla (source)
All he did was cut three rectangles into the glass, boom-boom-boom. It shouldn’t be interesting, much less fascinating. And yet it is.
A room with pano...
155. Model T
When automobiles were invented, a majority of Americans lived in rural places. Most of those people had never been more than five miles from home. In the first decade of the 20th century, the idea of such people owning a car was laughab...
154. The Pill
Sometimes I wish I were living 150 or 200 years in the future, because I’ll never visit Florence (or any touristy place) when it isn’t clotted with other people. Depopulation, we are told, is coming, possibly in unthinkably dramatic fashion...
153. Barbed Wire
The buffalo herds had roamed the continent for millennia, an unbroken sea numbering in the tens of millions. In a generation, they shrank to fewer than a thousand animals. A systematic hunting campaign was mostly to blame—we’ve seen the pho...
152. Laff Box
I couldn’t find a good image of a Laff Box; watch the Antiques Roadshow link at the bottom to see one. Cartoon via Hackaday.
Wally: Beaver... you got crumbs in the butter again. Boy, if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s crumbs in the...
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I keep it short. Art and other things. Author of The MFAH 100; founder of Glasstire: Texas visual art online.
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