Tag: Potato

Whenever a potato appears in famous fine art, it’s always a surprise and a delight—especially when you’ve been tracking potato art for years. After all, my blog is named Spudart. I’ve used the Spudart name for 28 years since 1997.…

Atlas Obscura has published a list of potato places to visit. 10 Places That Will Take You to Potato Paradise: take a global tuber tour. Place City Country Potato Shed Memorial Boston, Massachusetts USA Frietmuseum Bruges Belgium Big Idaho Potato…

My invention of the SpudDOUBLEMAX!

The spudart name came from a problem most college graduates faced in the mid-1990s: losing your school email address after graduation. Email had just gained widespread use during the 90s, so for most college students at the time, it was…

The clothespin artist stands at the front steps of the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1994. My fellow college freshman friends and I approach this man selling clothespin necklaces and tshirts with simple clothespin silhouettes. While signing…

“Every human being is an artist.” * Beuys’ quote on his art statement: ‘everybody is an artist‚’: I am searching for field character, 1973; as quoted in “Energy Plan for the Western man / Joseph Beuys in America”, by Carin…

Playskool Mr. Potato Head Spudbob Squarepants. The name is clever. Spudbob. But who in the world designed this mashup? They should have just simply kept the same Mr. Potato Head mold and just painted it yellow with some dots. The…

My Spudart logo bears a somewhat resemblance to the Chicago Bean, aka Cloudgate. I find pleasure in this because when I designed the Spudart logo in 1998, I wanted my logo to function like a potato where it has many…

There’s an artist in Germany Jerszy Seymor who adds milk to potatoes, heats up the liquid, and it turns into plastic! Amazing! Then he makes little chairs and stuff out of the plastic. Nora Schmidt of kidsmodern.com wrote about Jerszy’s…

Idaho state quarter. Quick–what do you think? Potatoes, right? I’d LOVE to see a potato on a United States quarter. It would be the coolest state quarter ever. Everybody loves the wheat penny. But a spudquarter would be even better!…

There is a giant potato that orbits around Saturn and its name is Hyperion… Hyperion the potato! That’s one large starchy tuber!

Inside my can of Pringles Prints was a potato chip that had the words “Printed fun on every one” and a weird pattern. At first I just thought it was just a fun different chip, but then I realized that…

This photo from wikipedia’s entry on sweet potatoes is really cute. It’s like a big potato party! All the attendees are like people, some skinny, some fat, some average.

On July 19, 1999, spudart.org was reserved. Although I used the name spudartearlier than that when I first came up with it for my hotmail address back when I was graduating college in 1997. For the meaning on spudart, go…

New feature on spudart.org! On left hand side of the homepage at www.spudart.org is the growth progress of a sweet potato in my dining room. About every day or so I’ll take a photo of it and post it on…

From Cooking Master Tom How a chef thinks: Roses only last like a couple weeks, and that’s if you leave them in water. And they really only exist to be pretty, so that’s like saying, “My love for you is…

The Occasional Potato is a xeroxed group of things/articles that I find interesting. And it has a potato on every cover.

I haven’t eaten potato chips in years. Last week, I got the strange urge for some tater chips. I’m currently finding out that eating potato chips while at the computer just doesn’t work. Your hands get all greasy, and I’m…

Some shall stand some shall fall. 4′ x 2′ x 2′ potatoes, stoneware, dirtThis artwork no longer exists. However, it can be recreated.