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a collection of ridiculously interesting art, objects, ideas, and history

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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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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

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Illustration of Liston surgiccal knives.

GUEST POST: Mike Crump on Robert Liston and the Spectacle of Surgical Amputation

4 October 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Today’s post comes from Mike Crump, a brilliant young neuroscientist doing impressive brain research at Oxford (which is far too complicated for my humble art historical mind to fully understand, let alone articulate to you, so I won’t embarrass myself trying). When not discovering awesome brain things, Mike is interested in the dark corners of the history of science and medicine. He’s written a great article for the blog about a ridiculously interesting Victorian surgeon, Robert Liston, who was one […]

Categories: Guest Post, history • Tags: guest post, history, medicine, science, surgeon, victorian era

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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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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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Members of South African hip hop outfit Die Antwoord, posing with a bear skin and a huge joint.

GUEST POST: Jessica Draper on Die Antwoord

16 September 2011 by Chelsea Nichols

Categories: Contemporary Art, Guest Post, Ideas • Tags: controversial, guest post, music, south africa, stereotypes

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