{"id":1532,"date":"2024-11-24T17:50:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T17:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manzodakota.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:50:38","slug":"humorous-bumper-sticker-for-art-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/humorous-bumper-sticker-for-art-nerds\/","title":{"rendered":"Humorous bumper sticker for art nerds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was leaving the Magazzino Italian Art Museum<\/a> in Cold Spring, NY yesterday, when I noticed this funny bumper sticker on a car in the parking lot: “My other car is a John Chamberlain” requires a little art history knowledge in order to get the joke. If you’re not familiar with John Chamberlain or his art, I’ve included a couple pictures of his sculptures that I took at Dia Beacon<\/a> a few years back.<\/p>\n

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Sculptures by John Chamberlain using smashed-up automobile parts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John Chamberlain (1927 \u2013 2011) was an American artist who made sculpture using scrap-metal auto parts (he was also a photographer and filmmaker). He started making sculptures like this in the mid-to-late 1950s, and one could argue that they are utilizing ideas of abstract expressionist painting (popular at the time) but in three dimensions. This three dimensionality is one thing I really like about his freestanding sculptures like these, because as you walk around it, it takes on a different appearance based on which angle you’re viewing it from. <\/p>\n

At any rate, seeing that bumper sticker made me laugh, and the fact that I saw it in the parking lot of an art museum makes total sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was leaving the Magazzino Italian Art Museum in Cold Spring, NY yesterday, when I noticed this funny bumper sticker on a car in the parking lot: “My other car is a John Chamberlain” requires a little art history knowledge in order to get the joke. If you’re not familiar with John Chamberlain or his … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[95,177,414],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-art","tag-bumper-stickers","tag-john-chamberlain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}