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In February 2000, there was a unique exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: “Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard.” Evans was a titan of 20th-century photography who portrayed broken-down plantations; sharecropper families, and bone-dry Southern farms during the Depression, grimy factories in the North; and the facial expressions of New York subway passengers. Evans collected picture postcards throughout his life during the golden age from 1900 into the 1920s. This phenomenon was spurred by the United States postal service’s 1907 ruling that the blank side of a postcard could include the address of the recipient and a message. ....
EVY WARSHAWSKI Napa is fortunate to host a flourishing public arts scene with original works sprinkled throughout a wide swath of downtown. For example: murals commissioned by The Rail Arts District (radnapa.org); eclectic sculptures that dot our downtown streets (napaartwalk.org), and most recently, 13 utility boxes wrapped in imaginatively realized works by local artists and sponsored by The Downtown Association. Support local news coverage and the people who report it by subscribing to the Napa Valley Register. Special offer: $5 for your first 5 months! Every now and then, however, art appears where you least expect it, outside the realm of the more adjudicated, institutionalized public art programs. ....