Paul Ruschá, 81, has worked among a growing community of artists and patrons helping to make Winslow a down-low, desert-southwest Marfa. Beginning on October 19, the Affeldt Mion Museum celebrates his work with a year-long exhibition devoted to his career as an artist in many media—photography, painting, calligraphy, assemblage—and as a freewheeling art-world jester and agent provocateur. So many of the works here are as anarchic as they are discomfitingly deadpan, such as the faux-snakeskin scrapbooks filled with those little inspection slips you find in the pockets of new clothing, and the affectionate photographs of “vacuforms,” which Ruschá describes as “plastic, bubble-faced products at the check-out lines in the stores where I shopped.” Ruschá’s peripatetic career has included stints as a car hop at Orange Julius, a guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a staff photographer for United Artists Records. (A few of his images reside in the Whitney’s permanent collection.) Along the way, he has been a friend and muse to artists and photographers such as Don Bachardy and Lloyd Ziff. The show and catalogue are dedicated to the memory of his longtime, off-and-on paramour, the writer Eve Babitz. —Mark Rozzo