I’m a vegetarian (well, kind of…in that I eat dead animals every 3 to 6 months). But if I ever find myself in Szeged, Hungary that won’t stop me from checking out the Salami and Paprika Museum. You can say cured meat is in my blood because my family used...
Life Savers, a ring-shaped hard candy that is usually wrapped in foil rolls, was occasionally featured on the television show Mad Men. I remember in “The Phantom” episode Pete wanted “fresh” Life Savers from the lobby (whatever that means), then there was that time Peggy lost both a nickel and...
Just outside the Quicken Loans Arena at the Republican National Convention In Cleveland is a Donald Trump Pop-Up Museum (soon to become an online museum) that tells the story of The Donald’s failed business ventures and more. The liberal political action committee American Bridge set up this exhibit to “expose…a...
Continuing with the junk theme from yesterday, here’s the latest art exhibition “Too Too - Much Much” from Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn. Using the motif of the beverage can, this installation at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Belgium shows the meaning of quantity in our everyday lives. This is a hoarder’s...
August 6, 1928 is Andy Warhol’s birthday. He would have been 86 years old if he was still living life and stuff. Probably his most famous “artwork” (if you can call it that…I’m not much of a fan of pop art, to be honest) is Campbell’s Soup Cans. I’m sure...
So I guess January 20th was National Granola Day (as well as Arbor Day for Jewish People and Coffee Break Day). Granola (or granula) is a recent invention of the 19th century to define whole grain foods crumbled and baked until crispy. It was created in a sanitarium. Good to...
Considering everyone is freaking out over Instagram selling people’s crappy cat photos without payment, I can’t think of a better time for us to visit Amsterdam’s Katten Kabinet. Yes, these furry egomaniacs get even more attention with their own museum full of sculptures, paintings and other random cat shit (not...
Labor Day weekend in America means everyone gets to travel to their weekend homes and favorite vacation spots to enjoy one “last” bit of summer, well, except for me. I stay home because I am too poor to have a weekend home or take a vacation. But unlike me, artist...
Sorry Gary Lewis & the Playboys, but not everybody loves a clown. Yet apparently someone else besides Gary likes them because there are several clowns museums in existence. We’ve covered them here on the blog before; the Klown Doll Museum in Nebraska, Ortys Clownmuseum in Germany, and Grampa Jerry’s Clown...
The Design Panoptikum in Berlin is the creepy industrial museum everybody has been looking for. What appears to be an ordinary storefront on the ground floor of a grey apartment block on Torstraße is actually a bizarre collection of 3,000 historical objects and curiosities from the worlds of film, aviation,...
