We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming (again…SORRY!) of creepy museums and attractions in the month of October to bring you a post from museum-of-artifacts because today is Octopus Day (yes, you read that last part right): There are a lot of awareness days and months. People like to be aware...
The Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí might be best known for painting melting clocks, but he also designed a sundial. Above Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris, which has a lot of sundials by the way, is “Le Cadran de Dalí“, a curious-looking piece of art (complete with Dalí’s signature in the...
One of the most well-known and mysterious cemetery markers in the Chicagoland area, as well as a personal favourite of mine, is the grave of six-year-old Inez Clarke (1873-1880). Located in Chicago’s historic Graceland Cemetery, her parents commissioned a life-sized statue, which was completed a year later by a Sicilian...
Through the years we have told you about people who have “talked” to God and created something from those conversations. Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden in Georgia and the well-known Salvation Mountain in Slab City are just a few examples. Well, the Minister’s Treehouse in Crossville, Tennessee is another one we...
Believe it or not, college fraternities did not invent the drinking game (okay, maybe beer pong but who wants to play that except idiot douchebags?). Consuming alcoholic beverages and playing games simultaneously dates back to antiquity. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston just opened the brand new Kunstkammer Gallery,...
Entering a vast museum complex, whether it be an institution like the Louvre or the Met, overwhelms the average tourist. They’ve most likely never been to this museum before so they grab a map and study the location of must-see pieces and exhibits. Racing through endless galleries, sometimes two or...
The Dinner Party is a permanent exhibit at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. An important milestone in 1970s feminist art, the piece was created by artist Judy Chicago who wanted to “end the ongoing cycle of omission in which women were written out...
Even though he was known for killing lots and lots of animals, the cute lil’ teddy bear was named after President Teddy Roosevelt due to an incident on a bear hunting trip in Mississippi in November 1902. An American Black Bear was cornered, clubbed, and tied to a willow tree...
Coffee Mug Tree, Catawba Valley Drive, west of Roanoke, Virginia. I don’t know about you, but I have too many coffee mugs. I mean, I like coffee, but how many cups of coffee can one person drink? My mom used to travel quite a bit back in the day, and...
If you’re looking for street art that your grandmother or college professor will love and support, then I suggest you take them to the city of Leiden in the Netherlands. In 1992 the ‘Poems and Walls’ project, an initiative curated by the Tegen-Beeld Foundation, set out to hand-paint over one-hundred...
