Tag: museums

biweekly links 4-22-2020

A few of my favorite things to look at to keep my mind off everything:

A UK Museum Challenged Bored Curators Worldwide to Share the Creepiest Objects in Their Collections. Things Got Really Weird, Fast: oh, be still my heart!  But obviously not as still as that sheep’s heart run through with nails. And the Twitter thread is only 3 days in.

Meanwhile #tussenkunstenquarantaine (“between art and quarantine”) over at Instagram continues what the Getty kicked off. Just remember it’s all fun and games until someone drags Bosch into this.

 

Not Bosch, but awfully clever. Original by Rudolf II Fave Arcimboldo.

11 Fashion Museum Experiences You Can Access Online: and this in addition to the Christian Dior exhibit video [YouTube] making the rounds.

And still more non-fashion must-see online exhibitions of the moment.

How are you amusing/distracting yourself? How are you keeping sane?

biweekly links 10-11-2017

Sylvia Plath and the Occult: Interview with Julia Gordon-Bramer: I leave it to the experts to determine how serious Plath was about tarot cards but to my inexpert mind Gordon-Bramer may be onto something.

New documentary is a magic portal into a weird and wonderful library: this 90 minute doc on the Ritman Library explains what they mean by “western esotericism” with abundant gorgeous shots of historic tomes from their collection. Available free through Amazon Prime (at least last week) if you love magical history and/or illustrated manuscripts, check it out. Should I ever get to Amsterdam this library is on my list of must-sees.

Borley Rectory animated documentary: the trailer evokes early horror films and steampunk but I’m willing to see if it winds up being more substance than style. As this “most haunted house in England” burnt down in the 1930s, I wonder what the most haunted is now?

writing on wall:
Ghostly(?) writing from the wall of Borley Rectory. I always found this image deliciously eerie. Courtesy Tumblr.

You Can Now Visit a Witch Museum in Cleveland: the Buckland Gallery of Witchcraft and Medicine has bounced around the states for years and is currently (permanently?) attached to a record store. Advertising is minimal (they’re concerned about how they’ll be received) but open during some regular hours and by appointment.