The Contemporary Curiosity

I went into this store accidentally when I was Christmas shopping on Valencia Street. It is interesting and people find it awe-inspiring in it's supposed novelty, but really I got kind of mad being there. A pretty frivolous and unscientific (i.e. ill-informed) take on the curiosity cabinets of "yore."

http://www.paxtongate.com/about/about1.html

MOBA

Museum of Bad Art
"Art too bad to be ignored"


http://www.museumofbadart.org/index.php

All of the works have captions, like this one:

"The organ master stares, transfixed by twin mysterious visions; the Neanderthal saint in the setting sun and the Gothic monk proceeding out from the cathedral's sanctum -- each framed by a halo of organ pipes, reminiscent of #2 pencils."

Apparently, this impressionist piece was the impetus, the founding catalyst, of the museum.

"inside"

the brain's my favorite

von Hagens

big and beautiful

large and in charge






































BASICALLY .. . . . .

WHIRLED

mundus

oh, things

dora maar




























man ray

Beaut

ICELAND


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