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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Taxidermy birds in little knitted sweaters by Annette Messager.

Birds in teeny sweaters

1 August 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities, Museums • Tags: art, bird, curiosities, installation, museum, taxidermy, textile

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Weird humanoid creature made by Charles Waterton.

Charles Waterton’s humanoid creature

11 July 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

I think that probably every person, at some point in their lives, gets the urge to make their own ridiculously interesting creature out of the shaved a** of a monkey. (Right?) Well this grim little fellow is the product of that impulse, created around 1824 by an eccentric but well-respected 19th century English naturalist, Charles Waterton (1782-1865).

Categories: Curiosities • Tags: art, curiosities, history, hoax, imagination, taxidermy

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