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Discusses the sensory experiences of going to museums in the 16th-18th centuries when touching and holding museum objects was much more common … not unlike how Thomas needed to touch Jesus’s crucifixion wounds after he rose from the dead to know he was real. Highlight was the description of a man who kissed the corpse of Queen Katherine in Westminster Abbey
Feb 2, 2024
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🖼When a museum is old and antiquated it becomes a museum museum- you can enjoy thinking about how it used to look and think about how people saw things way back when. The Natural History Museum in Manhattan is an obvious example of this. Old taxidermy dioramas of scenes in nature, wood grain everywhere… I wish I could only go to museum museums
Feb 13, 2024
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The less you know the better… but this mind-blowing Marais district institution implicitly reconstructs the proto-museum “Wunderkammer”/“cabinet of curiosities” experience, directly integrating rotating exhibitions of contemporary art within an itself-delirious blend of portraits, installations, taxidermy, weaponry, and artifacts of ambiguous veracity. The visitor is thus transported into a hybrid and chimerical world that, like its covert cousin (The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles), ultimately raises questions about the very purpose of museums — whether for natural science, technology, *or* for art — in a secular society.
Mar 8, 2024
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⭐the disruptive noise aside, it's always worth it :)
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Being the main character is hack shit, and really? You ain’t. All the people I see acting like the main character are all like, girls with blonde hair who didn’t hear Sonic Youth until their 20s or guys that that have daydreams about what they’d say as a guest on a podcast. I’m a supporting character. I’m Kramer, not Jerry, and I love it. Who needs a stressful storyline? If I get a storyline it is FUN, and EASY, and most importantly, UNNECESSARY. Most of the time I show up for a few minutes, get my bits in, and peace out. Simply living life.
Feb 3, 2024
