Editor’s Note: A Serving of Salmagundi

Abstract

A well-known New Yorker cartoon by Frank Modell (1983) shows a bemused family in the lobby of a museum, gazing at a directory that lists: “Big Crazy Paintings,” “Nice Country Scenes,” “Kings, Queens, Naked Statues,” and “Weird Metal, Wood and Plastic Things.” In a similar spirit of transparency, we could rewrite our table of contents for this issue of Source as “Puzzling Tombs,” “Allegorical Turtles,” “Uppity Artists,” “Dead Birds, Murderous Dads, Indoor Astronomers,” and finally “Public Art That Nobody Wants to Save.” Source is proud to share the vast variety of content that we expect to find in our great national