THE HALL OF FAME HALL OF FAME celebrates the uniquely American phenomenon of the hall of fame—a grass roots museum that reflects the passions, concerns and beliefs of twentieth-century America.

MARK THOMPSON has been an artist's artist in the Bay Area for three decades. By that I mean someone who has been enormously influential on other artists, is greatly respected among his peers and has created an imposing body of innovative work, but through it all has received only sporadic and inadequate curatorial and journalistic attention.