Museums
The Haus-Rucker-Co Live Exhibition
Source.
View the official catalog for this happening here.
One of the catalog pages below.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 04, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Pop Art, Museums, 1970s
Colleen Moore’s Fairy Castle
Still on display at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry. Lots of great pix at this link.
Source of article below.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 23, 2021 -
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Category: Architecture, Charities and Philanthropy, Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Hollywood, Museums, 1930s
International Banana Museum
The International Banana Museum, in Mecca, CA, boasts that it's the home of "25,000 banana-related items and pictures."
I think the location of the museum is odder than the idea of the museum itself. Mecca is just a tiny desert community located at the northern tip of the Salton Sea. No bananas grow anywhere near it.
The California Curiosities site explains how the museum ended up being there: because the owner of the museum, Fred Garbutt, saw a collection of banana memorabilia for sale on eBay and figured that a banana museum might generate some publicity for his struggling liquor store.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 21, 2021 -
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Category: Museums, Bananas
Viktor Wynd
Read the whole article here. His new book about his collections is behind the link below.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 26, 2020 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Museums, United Kingdom
Umbrella Cover Museum
Nancy 3. Hoffman is a self-confessed eccentric. For a start, she decided to legally change her middle name to '3'. She's a professional accordion player, which is definitely an unusual occupation. And then she created the world's only Umbrella Cover Museum on Peaks Island, Maine in 1996. The museum is still going strong. Due to Covid, it had an outdoor exhibit this year.Back in 2012, Guinness recognized Nancy 3 for having the largest collection of umbrella covers in the world. At the time that was 730. She now has around 2000 covers.
More info: Maine Today, twitter
Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 05, 2020 -
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Category: Museums, Collectors
The Ohwadas and their Tattoos
An instance of the Formerly Weird becoming No Longer Weird.
Original article here.
More pics here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 09, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Eccentrics, Museums, Foreign Customs, 1980s, Asia
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
I believe we've seen the birds-and-guitars piece before, but not the others.His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 26, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Museums, Music, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Singing at the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian has bought its first piece of performance art. Which means that if you visit the Hirshhorn’s sculpture garden you may find that a young woman will suddenly start singing while following you around.The performance piece, titled This You, is the creation of Tino Sehgal, though he doesn't perform it. There are four women who do that, in shifts.
Sometimes the performers will abruptly stop singing in order to state the title of the performance piece: “This You, Tino Sehgal, 2006.” And then they'll start singing again.
More info: Smithsonian Mag, Hirshhorn
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 14, 2018 -
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Category: Museums, Music, Performance Art
Mat Fraser’s “Cabinet of Curiosities”
The explanation is here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 04, 2018 -
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Category: Body, Medicine, Museums, Performance Art, Twenty-first Century
The Philadelphia Insectarium
World's biggest "insect zoo."
Article here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 09, 2017 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Museums
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