The Jewish Museum in Berlin was definitely a meaningful experience for a museologist (and half-Jew) like me. But it sounds like their current exhibit “The Whole Truth” is causing a lot of controversy in more ways than one. To help educate postwar generations who are largely uninformed and have no...
Still recovering from drinking too much over the weekend. Yeah, I know it’s WEDNESDAY but how many of you have consumed rum, champagne, whiskey, various beers and wine in less than 24 hours and lived to tell the tale? Okay, maybe a lot of you have done the same but...
Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s Dean Cain under a Tour Bus Parking Sign between Mountain Dew and Pepsi machines! I can’t go further than the South Side of Chicago without getting a weird feeling that I’ve entered some foreign land. It still frightens me to...
About a year ago the Hypothetical Development Organization set out to tell a different form of urban storytelling. While walking through Savannah one of the organizers noticed a sign that others have probably seen a hundred, if not a thousand times when walking around a city. But this one person...
If you’ve read this blog long enough, then you probably already know I have a thing for hoarders. I used to work for one (that didn’t work out so well) and have a family member (or two) whose baby toe is slightly keeping them out of the deep end of...
It looks like the Red Telephone Box Museum, Musée-Placard d’Erik Satie, Museum of Drawers, and Edgar’s Closet now have some competition for the “World’s Tiniest Museum” title. Located in Somerville, the gallery for Mµseum (the funny-looking “u” is a play on the Greek letter, which basically means “micro”)— also called...
Yesterday’s alien abduction post went over like a lead balloon, so let me redeem my sins with a visit to Salvation Mountain. Located on a hill north of Slab City, California, just several miles from the Salton Sea, this art installation was created by local resident Leonard Knight, who found...
It took four years but “U.S. artist Chris Burden has created a dizzying urban trip with his kinetic sculpture ‘Metropolis II’, composed of plastic roadways, toy train tracks, erector sets, legos and blocks. More than a thousand miniature toy cars zip through the model city at 230-scale miles per hour....
A fat, pessimistic, and sarcastic cat who loves lasagna, Garfield the comic strip was first published on this date back in 1978. In celebration of its 34th birthday, I’ll relive the time I visited the Fairmount Historical Museum. You probably didn’t know the cartoon is set in Muncie, Indiana. The...
It might look like a gas station, but appearances can be deceiving. This is actually someone’s home. Known as Reiff’s Gas Station Museum, the homeowner Mark Reiff has completely remodeled his house and front lawn to resemble a real gas station. There is even a 1950s-style diner inside with mannequins...
