I was happy to see in The New York Times last weekend that the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library opened recently – though not quite as thrilled to learn that I’d have to trek out to Vonnegut’s hometown, Indianapolis, Indiana, to visit. Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle was heavily influenced by the author’s work as a […]
Things got really funky back in the last days of Kruse. Searching for a sale, cars crossed the block multiple times in the same auction, but with different lot numbers. When they didn’t sell, if the car belonged to Kruse – and they owned many – it was often transported to the next sale, and […]
Just a couple of years ago, automotive designer and general gearhead Dwayne Vance assembled a collection of hot-rod-themed works from a group of like-minded artists, mixed in some of his own pieces, and bound it all together to create The Hot Rod Art Book: Masters of Chicken Scratch. The hardcover edition included a variety of […]