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James Reynold's 'Last Meals' series: Fried chicken for John Wayne Gacy.

Last meals of death row convicts by James Reynolds

23 October 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art • Tags: art, criminal, food, institution, last meals, photography

The unsettling aesthetic of Petrina Hicks

20 October 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art • Tags: albino, art, face, photography, unsettling

Jar of pickled moles from Grant Museum of Zoology, University College London.

GUEST POST: Neil Lebeter on pickled moles, haunting trees and Friday disasters

16 October 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities, Guest Post, history, Museums • Tags: curiosities, grotesque, guest post, haunting, installation, institution, moles, museum, outsider art, sculpture, textile, trees

Judith Klausner embroidered toast with egg

Embroidered Toast by Judith G Klausner

14 October 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities • Tags: art, embroidery, humor, sandwich, sculpture, textile, toast

Map of Canada made from processed cheese on white bread made by Tibi Tibi Neuspiel.

Tibi Tibi Neuspiel’s strange sandwiches

13 October 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities • Tags: art, humor, sandwich, sculpture, toast

Drawing of a battery cigarette lighter, by prisoner Angelo in collaboration with Temporary Services.

Prisoners’ Inventions Project by Temporary Services

7 October 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art, Ideas • Tags: art, criminal, imagination, institution, inventions, outsider art, papier-mâché, sculpture, tattoos

Jane Howarth’s beautiful bird guts

27 September 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities • Tags: art, bird, grotesque, imagination, jewels, pearl, rant, sculpture, taxidermy

Caddis flies crawl out of gold and jewel encrusted casings, by Hubert Duprat.

The bejeweled bugs of Hubert Duprat

21 September 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities, Ideas • Tags: art, curiosities, gold, imagination, insect, jewels, pearl, science

Ulric Collette's portrait of two family members with faces blended together.

Fascinating faces: Ulric Collette’s ‘Portraits génétiques’

17 September 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art • Tags: art, face, family, grotesque, photography

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