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...Holiday Inn of Cambridge--formerly the Cambridge House Moter Hotel--opened the first year-round outdoor swimming pool in the area. It has also redecorated its St. Clair's Regimental Room in a Yard of Ale vein, and renamed it Captain of the Guard (Rum and Rations...
Totem from Taboo. Johns's most known work is his 1960 Painted Bronze, apparently just two Ballantine ale cans on a pedestal. But look again, since, through the looking glass of pop, nothing is quite what it seems. They are, in fact, cast-bronze facsimiles of ale cans, one slightly smaller than the other. One is punched open and empty; the other is closed and solid bronze. Their labels are handpainted, and when lifted off their base, they provide a hefty gravitational surprise. They delight Johns pre cisely because they are false twins, an unequal equation, in short...
Johns's choice of Ballantine ale cans came from an offhand remark by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning to Johns's dealer, Leo Castelli: "Give that s.o.b. two beer cans and he could sell them." Johns proved he could (price: $1,000). Johns has also made art out of neon lettering, chairs, paint brushes and cast light bulbs in bronze...
...ale meanders o'er the chinne, and trickles down the legges...
That St. Clair pleyed the Martir to, yelept the Yard of Ale...