Images have been manipulated since the camera was invented, long before the faux vintage filters of instagram took over the world. Next month the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens an exhibit entitled Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop. Featuring hundreds of photographs from the 1840s through the 1990s, it is...
It’s time for another teeny tiny museum. Believe it or not, there is literally a museum in the window of the door of a private residence in Basel, Switzerland. It’s called the Hoosesagg Museum (hoosesagg means ‘trouser pocket’ in case you don’t speak multiple languages). Because the home is historically...
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...
Exactly 75 years ago over one million people poured into the city of Atlanta for the premiere of Gone with the Wind at the Loew’s Grand Theatre. The region around the city is Ground Zero for “Windies”, a nickname for Gone with the Wind devotees. The home where Margaret Mitchell...
The Skull Tower in the city of Niš, Serbia is literally a tower composed of human skulls. Once 952 heads were located on all four sides in fourteen rows. In 1878, the tower was roofed over, and in 1892 a chapel was built around it: “A macabre tower 15 feet...
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...
In 2015 it was exactly sixty years. I once told you about the time I took a road trip through Indiana and paid a visit to his hometown, specifically the Fairmount Historical Museum, which not only has exhibits on Dean, but also Garfield the Cat. Why? Because the creator also...
As someone who has poor blood (anemia), I think I might pick up some Blood Purifier next time I’m at the chemist. But I’ll probably be too tired to go. Seen at the Streetlife Museum in Hull, England.
Sorry for today’s late post. Sometimes life keeps you busy and away from all things internet. But speaking of the interwebs, did you know there is an actual tumblr dedicated to one of the creepiest things you can ever see at a museum? Yes, I’m talking about the mannequin. No...
There’s nothing more exciting in the life of a wax statue than to make another wax statue. Michael Dukakis or DeForest Kelley? You decide. Oddly seen at the National Bridge and Wax Museum in Virginia.
