The goal of this blog is to cover every known Miniatures Museum in existence. And there are more than you might think from the Museu De Miniatures in Besalú and the Museum of Miniatures in Prague to Zarifa Salahova’s collection of miniature edition books in Azerbaijan and the Carromato de...
The architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed 1141 buildings, but only 532 were actually completed during his lifetime. Many have since been demolished with only 400 buildings still standing. But did you know he designed a cat house? In the early 1950s, Gerald Tonkens commissioned Wright’s office to design and build...
The Top Ten Best Museums to Visit on Easter: 1.Ukrainian Easter Egg Museum Ukraine might be having some problems right now, to put it lightly, but it’s home to the only museum in the world dedicated to the Ukrainian easter egg (pysanka) that also happens to be in a egg-shaped...
Visitors looking at Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877). The painting “shows a vast cobblestone street, stretching out in front of looming, wedge-shaped buildings. The street is dotted with dark umbrellas that shelter top-hatted men, and women in long skirts — all looking vague and a little disoriented. That...
I’ve been to the Minneapolis Institute of Art several times and I highly recommend it. If you find yourself in the Twin Cities at all this summer, please visit the museum because the admission is free every day and they currently have a photography exhibit called “Who’s Who: Seeing Back...
Thanks to the hashtag #TheKeeper Mahattan’s New Museum of Contemporary Art has been sharing posts on Instagram featuring some interesting private collections to coincide with their temporary exhibit dedicated to the act of preserving sometimes valueless objects, artworks, and images. Artnet News’s Brian Boucher describes the exhibition as an exploration...
What better time to visit the Pysanka Museum than on Easter Sunday. This is the only museum in the world dedicated to the Ukrainian Easter Egg. So appropriately enough it is located in Kolomyia, Ukraine. The museum’s exterior is shaped like an egg, while the inside of the dome resembles...
Steven Wright might be the name of a deadpan comedian, but please don’t confuse him with folk artist Stephen Wright (or English footballer Stephen Wright). Back in 1999, Stephen the artist was a stationary and textile designer. But one day after seeing Jarvis Cocker’s Journeys into the Outside, he decided...
The giant Rainbow Serpent mural entitled Snake (1970-72) was created by Australian artist Sidney Nolan and is made of 1,620 individual paintings. The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania is the brainchild of eccentric millionaire David Walsh, who’s called it a “subversive adult Disneyland.” Designed by architect...
Patti Smith once sang in the song Gloria these immortal words: “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.” Well, today is the day, guys. On Wednesday I told you about some bronze statues peeing outside the Kafka Museum. But now I have a completely different collection of sculptures for...
