Prisoners’ Inventions Project by Temporary Services
Categories: Contemporary Art, Ideas • Tags: art, criminal, imagination, institution, inventions, outsider art, papier-mâché, sculpture, tattoos
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Jane Howarth’s beautiful bird guts
Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities • Tags: art, bird, grotesque, imagination, jewels, pearl, rant, sculpture, taxidermy
The bejeweled bugs of Hubert Duprat
Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities, Ideas • Tags: art, curiosities, gold, imagination, insect, jewels, pearl, science
Fascinating faces: Ulric Collette’s ‘Portraits génétiques’
Categories: Contemporary Art • Tags: art, face, family, grotesque, photography
Birds in teeny sweaters
Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities, Museums • Tags: art, bird, curiosities, installation, museum, taxidermy, textile
Charles Waterton’s humanoid creature
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
The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things 