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Michael Stipe, Another Outsider at the Art Fair
In the video for R.E.M.’s first one, “Radio No cost Europe,” the band’s customers can be witnessed going for walks in gradual-motion via the Summerville, Ga., property and lawn of the self-taught artist and Baptist minister Howard Finster. A landscape of lush foliage packed with folk art sculptures and salvaged objects, Finster’s “Paradise Garden” put together the regional traditions of evangelism and do-it-on your own item earning and had become a well-liked pilgrimage location for South Georgia artists, musicians and other inventive kinds. The back garden gave R.E.M.’s 1983 movie a dreamlike good quality and a recognizably Southern perception of location, placing it apart from the other hits on MTV…