Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether Bob Guillemin is a serious artist or not seems beyond the point. Sidewalk Sam is in the streets for fun, and the people who interrupt their busy dashes across Boston to stop and watch him work enjoy their respite from the hubub of city life manage to linger on for a few extra minutes to exchange friendly words with the red-bandanna-topped artist...
Harvard not withstanding, Sidewalk Sam lives on. His art does not survive on the streets for more than a week, but one likes to think that his impact on his public is a lasting...
...come to see Sam all the time," one businessman said while watching the sidewalk artist in front of Boston City Hall. "He brightens up my day. We need a lot more of this...
However extraordinary Sidewalk Sam might appear to the general public, it is the conventional art world--the art bureaucracy, as Sam calls it--which is most aware of how unconventional Sam really is. Concrete pavement, after all, is not your everyday medium. Neither are the wooden planks he works with in his East Cambridge studio strictly "accepted...
...people who stop to admire Sam's work often wonder about the logistical problems of sidewalk-painting. "Who cleans it up?" someone will...