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Today in India: the end of the road
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mysterious crochet doily found under bridge in bristol … england …
“To some it’s a giant nylon spider’s web, to others it’s a 12ft doily....
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Museum Mondays: Save the date for Guggenheim’s private opening of James Turrell this Friday, June 21st. In the meantime read up Vulture’s...
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Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues create 3,500 pounds of Cascading Chains Hanging 120 feet.
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The Penguin Protesters
Penguins, the flightless birds who take a natural standing posture in everyday life could not have found a better climate...
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Hugo Barros is an artist from Lisbon, Portugal who creates handmade collages without any use of any digital manipulation.
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“Minimum Monument” by brazilian artist Néle Azevedo, presented as part of the Festival of Queen’s in Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Twenty years ago, when McCartney turned 50, he remembers his then-manager pushing the idea of retirement. “It’s only right,” he was told. “You...
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31 posts tagged Museum
Today marks the 105th birthday of Frida Kahlo!
Known for her fantastical imagery and folkloric style, Kahlo earned recognition among the Surrealists, but her intriguing persona and originality propelled her beyond the confines of a specific movement to become a leading figure in modern art.
Pictured: photos taken during our 2008 Frida Kahlo retrospective, when artist Rene Yanez gathered many actresses at SFMOMA to portray the iconic and much beloved artist for a piece called “Pasion por Frida.”
See many more photos here!
‘San Telmo Museum’ in San Sebastián, Spain by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
Love Cai Guo-Qinag’s beautiful delicate works with explosions. Equally enjoyed speaking to people about these works back in my Smithsonian days at the Sackler and Hirshhorn Museums in 2003
At the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar this week, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang put on his largest “explosion event” of the last three years, utilizing microchip-controlled explosives to form incredible designs and patterns. The video we’ve embedded of the event is an impressive testament to how a volatile black powder explosion can be controlled and shaped by computer.
Each set of explosions was calculated to paint a different picture. One series of explosions created black smoke clouds that looked like “drops of ink splattered across the sky.”via @nickbilton.
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The rise of Asia.
Swiss museum saws horns off stuffed rhinos to prevent theft
The demand for rhino horn in Asia, where some see its ground-up powder as an aphrodisiac and even cancer-curing medicine, has driven prices to nearly $50,000 a pound — and with it a new type of crime: thieves breaking into museums and auction houses to tear the horns off stuffed specimens. [More]
Image: Lisa Schaeublin / Natural History Museum of Berne via Getty
Even our stuffed animals aren’t safe.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwiccmHxvm1qarjjvo1_500.jpg)
The rise of Asia.
Swiss museum saws horns off stuffed rhinos to prevent theft
The demand for rhino horn in Asia, where some see its ground-up powder as an aphrodisiac and even cancer-curing medicine, has driven prices to nearly $50,000 a pound — and with it a new type of crime: thieves breaking into museums and auction houses to tear the horns off stuffed specimens. [More]
Image: Lisa Schaeublin / Natural History Museum of Berne via Getty
Even our stuffed animals aren’t safe.
The Museum of Broken Relationships
“Everyone has had that moment – days, months, even years after the end of a relationship, when you come across something inextricably linked with that person. The Museum of Broken Relationships collects those trinkets – everything from poems to a grand piano, nasal spray to necklaces. It’s a magnificent, moving show, simultaneously both intensely personal and completely universal.”
(via loveyourchaos)
Dresden Museum of Military History
British photographers Hufton + Crow have sent us new images of the Dresden Museum of Military History, which reopened last month following an extension by New York architect Daniel Libeskind.
(via Dezeen)
The new Jean Cocteau Severin Wunderman Collection Museum, Menton via kathleenclarkexposed
Another wonderful artist who uses lithographs from the Portland Art Museum. Hung Liu. (Again, google her because no website, but I found these images here.)
Installation with Dan Flavin’s works in the Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam.
Interactive Museum of the History of Lugo by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos in Lugo, Spain
(via dressedupvamp)
