The pelvises of Christine Borland
Christine Borland’s ‘Set Conversation Pieces’ (1998) combine obstetric pelvises with 18th century English china.
Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities • Tags: body, medicine, porcelain, sculpture
Category Archives: Contemporary Art
Imposter family portraits
The family portraits in Hans Eijkelboom’s ‘With My Family’ series contain an unsettling secret.
Categories: Contemporary Art, Strange Photographs • Tags: art, family, photography, true crime, unsettling
GUEST POST: Make your own bat colony with Alice Fennessy
Create your own bat colony: a downloadable art activity designed by curator and museum educator Alice Fennessy
Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities, Guest Post, Historical Art • Tags: animals in art, bat, educational, guest post
Wearing her own face
Chelsea Nichols explores just what is creepy about Gillian Wearing’s photograph of Lily Cole wearing a damaged mask of her own face.
Categories: Contemporary Art, Unsettling Things • Tags: doll, gillian wearing, haunting, lily cole, masks, models, photography, psychology, unsettling, victorian era
Tony Fomison’s inner werewolf
Art and monsters are two of my all-time favorite things, so I’m in (weird, twisted) heaven when the two things combine. A strange, hairy beast lurks inside the soul of New Zealand artist Tony Fomison – head over to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa blog to read my full post about his remarkable paintings of hairy beasts. What does your inner monster look like? For New Zealand painter Tony Fomison (1939–1990) it was a creature drenched in darkness, […]
Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities • Tags: animal, art, curiosities, face, museum, new zealand, Tony Fomison, werewolf
Andrea Galvani: Horse balloons and fog bunnies
Categories: Contemporary Art • Tags: animal, art, balloon, horse, images, photography, rant, surreal, unsettling
Children not looking at modern art
Categories: Contemporary Art, history, Ideas, Museums • Tags: art, children, humor, imagination, museum, photography
Abandoned suitcases of insane asylum patients
Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities, history, Museums • Tags: collection, history, institution, museum, nostalgia, outsider art, suitcase
Opulent taxidermy made by Idiots
The Idiots are an artistic collective made up of Afke Golsteijn and Floris Bakker. They describe their work as “characterized by the use of animal material exquisitely sculpted into natural positions and combined seamlessly with rich materials such as embroidery and pearls.” Their work plays with all sorts of quirky taxidermy, such as the exposed fox spine of Thanatos and Hypnos (2011), the parrot headphones of Head Phones (Stilte!) (2009), or the slick oil drop bird in Oilbird (2008). However, I […]
Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities • Tags: animal, art, bird, curiosities, jewels, lion, sculpture, taxidermy, unsettling
The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things 