THE WILEY WHIZZER ART

In 1876, Professor Wiley T. Whizzer - of the famous Boston, Massachusetts railroad family - declared that the rail business was not the life for him. As he had always admired artists (more for their "lifestyles" than for their productions) he used his inheritance to purchase a small warehouse in Boston, which he then turned into a museum of "abandoned artists." These initially included such luminaries as Mabel Armand, creator of the infamous lace-embroidered army uniform, and the now-forgotten Ervin Belroy, whose wire-and-rag constructions are now widely seen as being prescient, but which were criticized at the time as being mere junk. Soon after the premiere showing (which involved as spontaneous egging and a subsequent fire) Wiley was convinced by his parents (who were shocked at the extent of Mr. Whizzer's facial burns) to give up the museum. However, he then put all his remaining money into creating a legacy that is still turning heads (and also emptying wallets) today. The Wiley Whizzer Art & Tea Biscuit Society ("All Biscuits FREE") is the direct beneficiary of his wisdom and economic foresight, for they continue the good work he began, by providing support and gallery space for artists whose careers, otherwise, would be in the custodial field. In fact, many people who frankly did not consider themselves to have a creative bone in their bodies were literally forced by the central committee of the WWATBS to take up the brush, or pencil, or pliers and rug hooks to pursue dreams they scarcely understood only moments before. The latest recipient of their random largesse is the suspiciously recalcitrant artist Ernst Fuchs. His new exhibit at the Wiley Whizzer Art & Tea Biscuit Society Gallery (entitled "Why Go There Now That The Wallets Are Empty?") is a veritable monsoon of half-considered ideas and wasteful techniques that are mustered in the service of getting by on a lark. All of us at the Gallery hope you find the time to visit and/or to send us money.	A PHOTO OF THE WILEY WHIZZER GALLERY

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