Topic: Museums

Art Crush: The Obliteration Room, Where Kids Post Hundreds Of Stickers To White Walls

Welcome to The Obliteration Room, where kids are allowed to deface the white walls — and chairs, and tables, and piano — with multi-colored stickers. It’s like something out of our childhood dreams, all thanks to artist Yayoi Kusama. More »

Art Crush: The Best Pieces Of Fan Art From Coco MoCA (The Museum Of Conan Art)

Not only does New York City get Conan O’Brien for a four-day stint where he hosts his show Conan live from the Big Apple—but his team decided to grace the fans with Coco MoCA, or the Museum of Conan Art. And it’s populated entirely by fan paintings! More »

The Daily WTF: This Got the Right Idea About Museums

Seriously, how can you have a museum without dinosaurs? Booo-riiiing! (We bet Annabelle is actually in her thirties.)
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“Historically Hardcore” Posters Compare 50 Cent, Bret Michaels to Famous Figures

Last week I posted some tweets from Columbia College Chicago’s Twitter page, where whoever was in charge of outreach used pop culture references to attract applicants to the school. The trend seems to be catching: “Historically Hardcore“, a series of posters by art director Jenny Burrows and copywriter Matt Kappler, unites the accomplished men from your high-school history books with male celebrities found on reality TV and Twitter. More »

Museums Are All About Web videos these days - The Guggenheim is going to be screening YouTube videos. High concept/low-concept? (via Guggenheim)

Can’t Get To The Beach? 7 Alternative Fourth Of July Activities

Maybe you’ve been working too hard to plan a trip to the beach for the long weekend. Or, maybe you don’t know anyone whose pool you can crash and none of your friends has organized a BBQ. But like it … More »