County Fair shows there's an art to collecting
18.09.11
THE L.A. County Fair is known for new foodstuffs and new thrills - but new words?
They've coined one at the Millard Sheets Center for the Arts: eclections. "Eclections: The Art of Collections" is the title of the exhibit this year, which spotlights collectors and their collections.
Comic books, marbles, toy robots, lunch boxes and salt shakers are among the items on display. Also, buttons, toy trucks, etched glass, hand fans - and more.
"If you look at the whole of it, it's very eclectic," Tony Sheets, the center's director and the son of its founder, told me. "That's where `Eclections' came from: eclectic collections."
Got it. Now tell it to Webster's.
"Eclections" is a collection of collections, a meta-concept that makes me think of Kramer's coffee table book about coffee tables on "Seinfeld."
The Sheets Center is the museum-like building by Gate 1. Inside the entrance, license plates for each state are affixed to a giant map. Nearby are tether cars, a hobby with which
Source: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin