In recognition of the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, the Hollywood Museum has a special exhibit on her life. Yep, it’s this weekend, folks. August 5, 1962. First of all, I had no idea Hollywood had a museum. Second, I grew up on the edge of Chicago surrounded by...
I’m sure this sign has gone viral meaning I’m not the first person to post a photo of it, and I probably won’t be the last. The Ukiyo-e Small Museum is open whenever the owner feels like it. What is ukiyo-e, you ask? It literally means “pictures of the floating...
I bet you didn’t know that October is Bat Appreciation Month. Or maybe you did. Who knows? There always seems to be something to appreciate…I mean a few weeks ago we were celebrating the octopus. Anyway, at the south end of the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, Texas is a...
Continuing with yesterday’s theme of “What’s With That House?” let me tell you about a place right here in Chicago. Located at Barry & Monticello in the Avondale area, the multi-unit home is an ever-shifting art installation with murals painted in homage to El Salvador, Puerto Rico, and South Africa...
Is that a Picasso or are you just happy to steal me? 1950s Curt Teich Company Postcard from the Lake County Discovery Museum
The Winterthur Museum in Wilmington, Delaware may be housed in a 175-room mansion once owned by a member of the du Pont family and filled with over 90,000 decorative and fine arts antiques, but who gives a crap about that shit when you can see the world-renowned Campbell Collection of...
When I visited Deutschland (or Germany for non-Germans) a few years back, I noticed their obsession with recycling. Everywhere you looked there was some kind of receptacle for a specific kind of material; blue for paper, yellow for plastic and metals, red for food and plant waste, etc. Glass is...
When I first started this blog over two years ago, I mentioned Leila’s Hair Museum in Missouri. Holy shit! Has it been that long? Anyway, Leila's proclaims to be the only hair museum in the world (aka America) but that’s not necessarily true. The Bangsbo Museum in Denmark has Europe’s...
Located in the very small hamlet of West Valley in southwest New York, Real Stuff Gallery & Gifts is a farm-based store that also happens to sell strange scrap metal sculptures created by owner Paul Boccolucci. The grounds are covered in enormous pieces of metal work, like dragons, insects, pink...
