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But "Flights" seeks itself—it's a cabinet of curiosities that is about cabinets of curiosities, a work of cultural tourism about cultural tourism, a series of movements about movement.
I'm just in awe of life and all its curiosities.
Follow The Creators Project's Instagram feed for more art curiosities.
Among younger Americans they are, at most, distant historical curiosities.
Pieces created using these algorithms aren't just curiosities — they're art.
For the Lakers, of course, these are all welcome curiosities.
These include the "Cabin of Curiosities" prototype in their backyard.
Personal computers were hobbyist curiosities, not yet used in newsrooms.
"My films depict my sexual exploration and my curiosities," Morgana says.
The police department's report on the case is filled with curiosities.
Our deepest, darkest secrets curiosities reside in the Google search bar.
This is one of the curiosities of the law, Wallace said.
The people I photograph are not freaks or curiosities to me.
Bourdain made it easier for us to indulge our own curiosities.
It's a three-legged (literally) table befitting your cabinet of curiosities.
McClymont's response, when approached with these curiosities, is a dismissive shrug.
ZTE's Spro line of mini smart projectors have always been curiosities.
I'm far enough away that it's like a cabinet of curiosities.
The room is also teeming with art, books and various curiosities.
There are also Pop curiosities, in the vein of Andy Warhol.
In cities like Calgary, native-born Albertans often seem like curiosities.
For decades, neural networks were laboratory curiosities, often met with skepticism.
Later these cabinets of curiosities became foundational collections in public museums.
Step right up and behold the Burtka-Harris Halloween Carnival of Curiosities!
Their curiosities tend to drift south, to their anatomy and its mechanics.
Giant larvaceans hold a well-deserved spot on this list of curiosities.
I don't care, I'm gonna be me, follow my passions and curiosities.
Company Curiosities is decidedly a story of company rule in South Asia.
Most VR experiences so far are more curiosities than they are compelling.
People with mental illnesses are not curiosities to be observed and studied.
How much has the history of cabinets of curiosities informed this environment?
The Oddities and Curiosities class was $100, all tools (and rats) provided.
And there are curiosities, like Yoenis Cespedes's younger brother, Yoelqui, of Cuba.
Think big dust balls and curiosities dug up in Salvador Dalí's attic.
There are so many little curiosities about how we perceive the world.
They're not just giant, intriguing curiosities in a remote part of the world.
About a dozen WeWorkers milled around, tasting curiosities like gelatin-free gummy bears.
She's one of over 300 19th- and 20th-century curiosities in the collection.
"Human curiosities" were a standard feature of the travelling acts of the day.
The choreographer Christopher Williams's works are a bit like a cabinet of curiosities.
"There's a lot included to help power curiosities across the globe," said Glenday.
Sometimes there were misfires, curiosities, experiments — and then, an absolute masterpiece would emerge.
Early rallies had been covered as curiosities; later ones as political mass spectacles.
That gives "Collecting the World" a somewhat static feel, like a cabinet of curiosities.
Alongside the curiosities, Ms Schulten weaves in eye-popping facts of sharp contemporary relevance.
My pathway through music has been a mess of happy accidents and burning curiosities.
At best non-Han groups within China are patronised as "charming and colourful" curiosities.
The 16 bundled games offer an interesting mix of fighters, shooters, and other curiosities.
But if correct, the implications go far beyond satisfying our curiosities about deep time.
This ambiguous photo of Jenner with Scott is only going to stir curiosities more.
We tech journalists can't stop talking about drones, but they're still mostly playthings, curiosities.
During the European Renaissance, men of wealth and learning put together cabinets of curiosities.
I teach anatomy, and the Mutter houses a collection of so-called medical curiosities.
Early on, the designers came up with the idea of a cabinet of curiosities.
I ran my blog on the sidelines while exploring all my different career curiosities.
Cabinet of Curiosities continues at the Houston Museum of Natural Science through December 31.
It's in a building from the 17th century and a cabinet of curiosities of sorts.
MORRISTOWN "New Jersey Collects: A Cabinet of Your Curiosities," collections of people in New Jersey.
MORRISTOWN "New Jersey Collects: A Cabinet of Your Curiosities," collections from people in New Jersey.
But the SGP and the Bible Belt are mostly viewed now as harmless historical curiosities.
Survivors often encounter another dense layer of shame related to exploring their desires and curiosities.
Follow random curiosities and enticing road signs to places like Hellhole Palms and Asbestos Mountain.
Seek joy, indulge curiosities, and chances are that all the pieces will fall into place.
Most of them are destined to remain historical curiosities, but "Huguenots" requires no special pleading.
The reportage motors forward, propelled by Ehrenreich's wonder at the outrageous curiosities of the occupation.
GLEN COVE "Northern Mexico: Canyons, Cave Dwellers and Curiosities," presented by Irma and Bob Mandel.
The people who publish such pieces treat the perpetrators of sexual misconduct as intellectual curiosities.
"There are all these questions and curiosities that are inspired by these experiences," he said.
While some may find these gossipy curiosities inherently interesting, their larger significance is left unstated.
They say school is where you get to explore all of your passions and curiosities.
This is especially true of the American artist's work modeled after Renaissance-era "cabinets of curiosities".
It empties Achebe's novels out like a bag, arranging the contents in a cabinet of curiosities.
"They were reticent because they didn't want the specimens to be treated as curiosities," she said.
Mr. Trump's aversion to television spending has been one of the biggest curiosities of his campaign.
BRIDGEHAMPTON "The Curiosities of Harry Squires," exhibition of local wildlife, memorabilia of shipwrecks, Native American artifacts.
Sloane enriched his "cabinet of curiosities" through tireless accretion, adding and adding and never taking away.
Ms. Shechet, 69, compared the installation to both a cabinet of curiosities and a secret garden.
But I had curiosities and about gender, but I couldn't have imagined making it a career.
The implication is clear: This exhibition is Mr. Anderson and Ms. Malouf's own cabinet of curiosities.
Our interests and curiosities, hopes and fears, desires and sexual proclivities, are all collected and saved.
He designed the first of the museum's six galleries: an intimate wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities.
Grand operas by Meyerbeer are now treated as curiosities, yet during his lifetime they were ubiquitous.
BREAKFAST BROWSE What you Googled this year Your deepest curiosities, for all the world to see.
Most cabinets of curiosities also included paintings and antiquities, in addition to maps, globes, and automata.
The Cabinet of Curiosities at the HMNS has all of these sorts of curios and more.
Tucked away in the corner downstairs is a "Cabinet of 50 Curiosities" to celebrate Matthew Freud's birthday.
Instagram is a cultural institution that is equal parts digital museum, cabinet of curiosities, and fashion gallery.
But out of Marston's many accomplishments, failures, and curiosities came at least one enduring creation: Wonder Woman.
We looked at one another as if we were each an item in a cabinet of curiosities.
I recently opened up our cabinet of curiosities for the sake of fun and information and photography.
Novelty games, Pitagora explains, are those that encourage exploration of desires that have remained fantasies or curiosities.
Sotheby's Collections and Curiosities sale in New York brought in a total of $2,326,125 on October 18.
This guy created a cabinet of curiosities in the 1800s in Genoa, Italy, in a big palace.
For years, they were at best ignored as lurid curiosities, though the reception was occasionally more severe.
All the while they field ticketholders' requests and indulge their curiosities, emanating a formal but reassuring presence.
It's also an easy game to recommend to a friend because everyone has curiosities they can indulge.
I tore myself away from the Covenstead's cabinet of curiosities and crossed the street to Glastonbury Abbey.
The point is, there's an app for everything — yes, even for the passions and curiosities you neglected.
Let's dig into six of the biggest curiosities surrounding the departure of the Knicks' beloved No. 6.
However, the experience is complicated by a curation that creates a sort of living cabinet of curiosities.
You know, those mundane curiosities like why do gas prices always end in 9/10ths of a cent?
Limit usage of these curiosities to once a week, says Dr. Day, who totally gets the odd appeal.
But business doesn't pick up until he realizes people would rather see live curiosities than not-live ones.
One of the curiosities of the Airbus-Boeing duopoly is how restrained those margins were—especially at Airbus.
Buried amid other curiosities were detailed instructions for how to take a photo of a UFO for analysis.
Cabinets of curiosities displayed in the homes of European nobility in the sixteenth century frequently included human skulls.
Bourdain, whose rakish personality and appetite for culinary curiosities entertained millions of viewers, committed suicide on June 8.
Oprah Winfrey found her power as the public switchboard operator of our private fears, assumptions, wishes and curiosities.
Reading this compendium is like exploring a cabinet of curiosities, each section home to uncanny and startling mirabilia.
While the proliferation of single-vintages is recent, the Champagnes have been much-sought-after curiosities for decades.
Some of the pieces can be viewed as simple curiosities; others are remarkable and rare works of art.
Today we have a different scenario, a cabinet of curiosities — a loving compilation of some really oddball words.
If folding phones are ever going to stop being just expensive curiosities, they have to start being normal.
I always find that great investors really tune in to certain curiosities that they have that others don't.
The Houston Museum of Natural Science brings back Ferrante Imperato's cabinets of curiosities in its decade-long exhibit.
"One minute we're drinking beer in a Kohl's parking lot and it's like, now we're cosmic curiosities," Strong said.
A bit more socio-political context would have been useful to appreciate the posters as more than eccentric curiosities.
Up until the 1970s, there are records of them exhibited as carnival curiosities in the United States and Europe.
The curiosities of light and darkness on long-haul flights offer additional, quite beautiful clues to our planet's shape.
Indeed, this question of how — of understanding the inner workings of Solange's artistic becoming — raises curiosities about family influence.
The book of products even included houses, which formed the backbone of entire communities and are now tourist curiosities.
Though more closely associated with racist violence, American skinheads in the 1980s were at times treated as fashionable curiosities.
The New York City subway system is one of the most fascinating curiosities in a city full of mysteries.
This retrospective of news from 1877 to 2013 presents highlights and curiosities from The International Herald Tribune's storied reportage.
The extension was developed by Mschf Internet Studios, which has produced a few internet curiosities like this over the years.
Most are no more than curiosities, but by January 29th, around 1.23 had a market capitalisation of more than $21.2bn.
All these shows are intensely postmodern cabinets of curiosities that swerve far from periodic categories once typical of the museum.
TheJersey Shore star, 30, revealed details about her childhood and the curiosities she had growing up in Marlboro, New York.
The exhibition, "The Fictional Portrait," is part of the museum's "Masterpieces & Curiosities" series, which explores objects from the permanent collection.
Masterpieces & Curiosities: The Fictional Portrait continues at the Jewish Museum (1109 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan), until August 14.
These anonymous bartender confessions address many of our curiosities — and tackle a few things we hadn't even thought of before.
The album is yet another quirkly Ice-T highlight in a discography full of milestones, curiosities, and Los Angeles lore.
It often harks back to a time when women of color were treated like curiosities, or even worse, zoological attractions.
This makes extremists like the ones profiled in the Times piece seem like curiosities, like people who have weird hobbies.
One of the curiosities of the rich world's low inflation is that it has coincided with the rise of populism.
Without really consciously designing my home to be a cabinet of curiosities, it functions in the way that they functioned.
I would imagine Leo and Cleo are pretty busy filling unnecessary requests just to satisfy other guests' curiosities like mine.
But the film largely treats its setting and the Afghan people themselves as threats, outsiders, curiosities, or one-note jokes.
Or you might otherwise be thinking, Go on... Over 438,000 people on Twitter had their interests piqued and their curiosities bristled.
"Because violence against women inexplicably isn't seen as terrorism, such sites and their messages are viewed as mere curiosities," she wrote.
But his curiosities soon led him to focus on spiders and their webs, which had been largely ignored in academic research.
She has furnished it as a virtual cabinet of curiosities, an autobiographical assemblage of antiques, paintings, objets d'art and memento mori.
Eventually Barnum cons the bank into lending him $10,000 and buys a museum, which he fills with curiosities and wax figures.
Gather around as the crypt keepers of our Science department share scientific curiosities of things that slither and crawl and fly.
Self-professed "humble student and late bloomer" Jeff Goldblum tackles his biggest curiosities and questions on his forthcoming National Geographic Series.
Show Us Your Wall This Washington couple has floor-to-ceiling art as well as wearable creations and folk art curiosities.
That in other countries, to other citizens, Chef Boyardee, Rice Krispies and Stephen King are all, to someone, little-known curiosities.
"If Our Bodies Could Talk" is a numbingly upbeat grab bag of anecdotes and factoids and curiosities with no through-narrative.
Much like the cabinet of curiosities that Rose and Ben each discover, these representations point to new worlds and alternative realities.
Like today's Google Cardboard, these curiosities were developed to be mass-manufactured and available to the public at a low cost.
If you're single, you can set up an account stating your preferences and curiosities, as you might with any other service.
Trump has continued to try to reinforce the idea that her behind-the-scenes efforts are more important than surface curiosities.
The Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) has brought Imperato's 16th-century engraving to life in its Cabinet of Curiosities exhibit.
The self-described "front page of the internet" is also the place people go to unwind, discover curiosities, and find like minds.
More than anything, I think that comes from my curiosities about that human space of vulnerability, both in male and female characters.
This cabinet of curiosities gives the impression of a collection of natural and artificial objects, or items of re-contextualised objet trouvé.
But your device says a lot about you: Your pastimes, your taste in music, your curiosities and the things you shop for.
For more than five decades he has bought avant-garde 260th- and 21st-century art, comprising both iconic masterpieces and recondite curiosities.
It's days like today I am the happiest not to work in an office and lucky enough to pursue all my curiosities.
To finish it off, they collected smaller, whimsical curiosities, including an old elevator sign from Macy's and a black-velvet Jesus painting.
Like everything in Krascella's cabinet of curiosities, the sweaters defy easy categorization — some are playful and eccentric, others sharply tailored and classic.
Most of the scraps remained in Amherst's archive, curiosities sought out by tenacious Dickinson scholars but unknown to the public at large.
Of all the companies gearing up to enter the streaming wars, Apple is one of the biggest curiosities for critics and experts.
"Taxonomies" follows, a Judaica display that is essentially a cabinet of curiosities, with dozens of shofars, groggers, and Torah breastplates and finials.
The objects were exhibited like curiosities or artifacts on an 800-foot wall containing small plexiglass shelves arranged in a large grid.
So my pictures are like a cabinet of curiosities—a collection of things that interest me, but perhaps mundane to my friends.
Some critics scoff at this work, considering the installations expensive but shallow curiosities, or opportunities for visitors' facile virtue signalling on social media.
Though the very official three-sentence response didn't provide closure on many of our most burning curiosities, it did reveal some interesting information.
COMPANIES SUCH as Casper, which sells mattresses, Warby Parker, a spectacles brand, and Glossier, a cosmetics firm, were once seen as interesting curiosities.
And the need for a response turned theoretical curiosities (such as the liquidity trap that can stymie monetary policy) into major policy dilemmas.
On the walls are curiosities, natural and human made, on loan from the Ashmolean Museum and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
The true curiosities here were Sacchini's "Oedipe à Colone" and Martini's "Sapho" — respected, even beloved, in their day but basically unknown in ours.
I sometimes spend hours on the site, which collects curiosities from across the globe, bouncing from enchanted forests to Russian space-age monuments.
"BUT IVANKA, WHERE WILL I FIND THESE EXOTIC CURIOSITIES?" you might be asking the Internet Concierge who is reading these words to you.
They showed wax figures and anatomical models as well as other curiosities, similar to Barnum's American Museum and dime museum exhibitions in America.
The melancholy "Dream English Kid" may not have the outward-facing joy of "Fiorucci," nor the exacting wit of his cabinet of curiosities.
We conventionally think of college as a place where you can discover new ideas, indulge curiosities and learn for the sake of learning.
Brandon mentioned that she had visited Madame Tussaud's exhibition, at the Lyceum Theatre, of wax curiosities of crime Gort begged for repulsive details.
The series' stated mission is to exhibit movies outside the usual purview of repertory programming — hard-to-find curiosities and long-forgotten gems.
Fundamentally, the purpose of the cabinet of curiosities was to inspire awe and wonder about the natural world and humankind's place in it.
The PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube era was full of weird games best treated as curiosities to be purchased from a bargain bin.
This year's theme is the "City as Wunderkammer," positing the notion of the city as a "cabinet of curiosities" on a grand scale.
The Cut remarked at the time that the couple was "remarkably solemn" for two people who were presumably leaving a cabinet of sexual curiosities.
The magician Ricky Jay, considered by many the greatest sleight-of-hand artist alive, is also a scholar, a historian, a collector of curiosities.
It's a quick read, but the characters are adorable and it's well-plotted, and would be tantalizing for the curiosities of its intended audience.
In large underground clubs, groups of people dance late into the evening, and visit shadowy basements to indulge in all manner of sexual curiosities.
The exhibition Cabinets of Curiosities is essentially a collection of collections that has everything for the postmodern globalist in the age of data retrieval.
Wilson, who describes current 3D-printed guns as "mostly curiosities," said that the "big" and "bulky" characteristics of the weapons would help identify them.
The cabinet of curiosities, glittering with all kinds of marvels, is just to be browsed; the travelling reader moves through it and past it.
And these are not mere statistical curiosities: Alienation in rust belts and secondary cities underlies the anti-establishment wave roiling the U.S. and Europe.
"At that point, I had never sculpted anything seriously before, but I have always been fascinated with morbid curiosities and science fiction," Lim says.
The Masterpieces & Curiosities series comprises seven exhibitions running from 2013 and 2017, and features objects the highlight the eclectic nature of the museum's collection.
Despite the shoe box size of his current studio, in Hackney, East London, it's full of curiosities — polystyrene sculptures, plastic lotus flowers, colorful toys.
Although haunts, stories and curiosities dominate Max's imagination, he also has practical concerns befitting a boy of his age: He wants to play soccer.
Botanical miniatures belong in a cabinet of curiosities: They invite a level of scrutiny that makes the everyday appear not just unfamiliar but exotic.
They took Durgy to The Hard Swallow and showed him the space, emptied of the curiosities and neon signs that had given it life.
The unexploded World War II bombs that authorities periodically discover here and in other countries like Germany are far more than just historical curiosities.
As fame came to seem increasingly like a game that could be rigged, West remained a man of erratic shifts and intense, flitting curiosities.
It's a true cabinet of curiosities, one that also happens to serve an important design role in why Palais Récup looks the way it does.
There already exists plenty of tropes about black women's inherent hypersexuality, and it's something that made me shy away from my curiosities in the past.
Understanding all of these biological curiosities, and the way our brains rationalize a sense of "sameness" will be crucial to recognizing AI when it arrives.
In the 17th century, museums functioned as cabinets of curiosities, private collections where wealthy Europeans housed cultural artifacts obtained through their travels to exotic places.
Instagram announced a redesign of Explore — which has long been hailed as a kind of magical cabinet of curiosities — at Facebook's developer conference on Tuesday.
Back then these springs were seen, at best, as curiosities, and at worst as flooding risks, because there was then no market for the metal.
Attempts to uncover who she is feel less like an appreciation of her work than a bow to the need to gratify our passing curiosities.
Other pieces include a brief survey of botanical curiosities, instructions for building your own laser oscilloscope projector, and a section on "cool chords" for producers.
Any message expressing suicidal thoughts or curiosities is a legitimate request for assistance, and in many cases can be a matter of life or death.
It hasn't always been the case, but devout Christians can be curiosities, if not objects of outright skepticism, among American liberals and the broader left.
BRIDGEHAMPTON "The Curiosities of Harry Squires," exhibition of local wildlife, memorabilia of shipwrecks, Native American artifacts and more from the collection of a Bridgehampton figure.
BLK MKT Vintage not only celebrates "black curiosities," as Handy and Stewart call their wares, but ultimately cultivates an honest, more complete collective black memory.
Phil Van Huynh, another florist, sprinkles his Melbourne, Australia, house with curiosities like French milk bins from Marseille and dairy feed sacks repurposed as pillows.
When it comes to the slowdown in the market, Ancestry CEO Margo Georgiadis isn&apost fazed, citing people&aposs curiosities to understand their family histories.
Sweet Digs has long been the series to satisfy our deepest curiosities about where people live — and, more importantly, how much they're paying for it.
Cabinets of curiosities were the products of their historical context, organized by those who did the collecting — the European elite — and those who were collected.
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, whose rakish personality and appetite for culinary curiosities entertained millions of viewers, was found dead of an apparent suicide early Friday morning.
It's a depressing fate for these well-preserved vintage electronics and curiosities, but let's remember the good times with Walt Mossberg's ode to the TRS-80:
Cryptographers are debating the relative merits of such mathematical curiosities as supersingular isogenies, structured and unstructured lattices, and multivariate polynomials as foundations for quantum-proof cryptography.
"SXSW has such an incredible creativity community and is a great opportunity for brands to connect intimately with fans and tap into their curiosities," she said.
Forget the filtered minimalism favored by so many fashion bloggers — the designer John Alexander Skelton's Instagram account is 2016's answer to a cabinet of curiosities.
Spencer Madrie, owner of the Ol' Curiosities & Book Shoppe dedicated to the work of Lee and other Southern authors, said Monroeville was in a sombre mood.
Some of my efforts will be explanatory — unraveling the intricacies and curiosities like the Electoral College, a source of befuddlement to many foreigners (and some Americans).
The cast, which also includes Greg Keller as a newcomer to the troupe, is a cabinet of curiosities in itself, a collection of Off Broadway treasures.
Just this month he released the recording of Symphony No. 13, a commissioned piece for 100 guitars—just one instance of the composer's unrivaled sonic curiosities.
Daniel Day-Lewis was riffing on the mysteries and curiosities of romantic entanglements — how people can be governed by desires that seem alien even to themselves.
Some of those objects — including a Humboldt squid's beak and a garfish — are stored in a glass-fronted case referred to as Silas's cabinet of curiosities.
Here is a closer look at milestones and mishaps involving the helium-filled characters sailing overhead, and the curiosities of a nearly century-old holiday tradition.
I want books to be an unlimited resource for young people and their curiosity, not a sphere restricted by how uncomfortable some curiosities make adults feel.
Its moniker derives from Ito's affinity for cabinets of curiosities — small historical collections of rare objects that tell weird and wonderful stories about the natural world.
His office in Manhattan's General Motors Building is a museum of trophies and curiosities, from paintings by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein to Kennedy's rocking chair.
Among its curiosities: a pair of rapping Welsh teenagers, a suspiciously Slender Man–like apparition, dance-fighting skeletons, Frankensteined puppet fighting, and World War II bombers.
While most of these planes have either been melted or sold for scrap, some Icelanders have turned them into things like sheep barns and roadside curiosities.
Doing so helps kids navigate their current sexuality-related curiosities and increases the odds that they will one day find themselves in satisfying and respectful sexual relationships.
Along with the physical trauma of her burn, Francis also has to explain away the curiosities of the small children she works with as a school counselor.
The real chastity belts that you see in museums were created later, "as curiosities for the prurient, or as jokes for the tasteless," according to The Smithsonian.
Of course, like any such event news conference involving a President as unorthodox as Trump, there were curiosities, open loops and sometimes a questionable relationship with facts.
One of the curiosities of the 28500 midterm election is national polls show Democrats motivated to vote in the same way Tea Party supporters were in 6900.
Amid this pomp, the effect of the glass box is that of nothing so much as a museum specimen case, one intended for curiosities of human scale.
Belgium has also produced stamps that taste like chocolate, which may seem like an extreme design choice if you haven't dived into the curiosities of stamp history.
Companies and individuals have either made one-off cameras or entire lines of strange photographic curiosities—some intentionally, others rather inadvertently (think the Diana and Holga cameras).
Black people are born into an Abrahamic religion but often these men's artistic curiosities contradict the laws of that religion, but it still needs to be expressed.
How much the seasoned Dwyane Wade and Derrick Rose have left, as they join James, Thomas and Kevin Love in Cleveland, counts for two more major curiosities.
Walk into any big box store and you'll see TVs for a couple hundred dollars with features that were multithousand-dollar curiosities just a few years ago.
He grabs a wad of cash skewered on a stake from the cabinet of curiosities and thrusts them into the crowd like a money-mad head honcho.
If the Houston Museum of Natural Science's exhibit is any indication, cabinets and their curiosities continue to inspire audiences with awe and wonder about the natural world.
Founded in 1985 by Matthew Freud — great-grandson of legendary psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud — Freuds' offices are stuffed with the rafters with an eclectic collection of artworks and curiosities.
The sequencing of these books speaks to the growth in Trethewey's curiosities and her approach to wrestling with the most immense and difficult-to-uproot parts of America.
There are also worthwhile curiosities, like the Friday the 13th-inspired Splatterhouse, which may not be particularly inventive, but is still worth experiencing for its tone and style.
Barnum made a fortune from placing curiosities into a glass box in his museum, and allowing people to look freely at what they would normally look away from.
Riddled with empty air and small-town spookiness, the David Lynch show is a museum of curiosities and artifacts — no touching allowed, and no speaking above a whisper.
Something of a father figure to the town's troubled youth and a mystery to just about everyone else, much is made of the eccentric horologist's many intellectual curiosities.
Much of their website is a trove of silly curiosities and factoids, including a biography claiming the emperor is distantly related to all of Europe's major royal houses.
It's fitting, then, that the tiger graces the cover of Arthur MacGregor's recent compendium of colonial collections, Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600 – 1874.
Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600 – 1874 (2018) by Arthur MacGregor is published by Reaktion and is available from Amazon and other online retailers.
Tokarczuk's book is a cabinet of curiosities that must also include itself in the cabinet, which means that, formally, "Flights" can't really hang together, and doesn't attempt to.
Hammocks were among the curiosities that Columbus took back to Spain Venezuelans mostly use a different word: chinchorro, which can also refer to a kind of fishing net.
That cache, available at the website Giphy, includes some well-known curiosities, like an animated version of the 1970 Oval Office handshake between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon.
The tail fin from that round now sits in the Baron's cabinet of curiosities alongside such relics as pottery given by visiting archaeologists and T.E. Lawrence's hotel bill.
Museums catering to perverse, macabre, or just plain bizarre curiosities are nothing new: there's Sicily's "human library," Pennsylvania's Mutter Museum of medical oddities, and Missouri's Glore psychiatric museum.
Throughout January, we'll be rolling out stories related to rest and resilience, including self-care and wellness, nighttime curiosities and bedtime culture, and finding stimuli in unusual places.
It includes portraits, caricatures, garments and curiosities, like a tiny 17th-century anatomical model of a pregnant woman that comes apart to reveal the fetus and organs inside.
Fremantle doesn't elide the differences between the present and the past in favor of a kind of immediacy, but rather presents the period as a cabinet of curiosities.
"It is important for the Museum of London to display genuine curiosities from past and present," the director of the museum, Sharon Ament, said in a news release.
Reddit, which has 430 million monthly users, is known for its tight-knit communities known as subreddits, where people gather to talk about their curiosities, interests, and obsessions.
The same week Nintendo released Super Mario Maker in 2015, Nintendo launched a copyright strike at Mario video uploaded by Andi McClure, a designer of numerous web curiosities.
Netflix may be the place to go for all your morbid curiosities, but on Monday, the streaming service reminded fans that obsessing over a murderer is seriously toxic behavior.
To highlight some of the curiosities these images record, its digital team recently launched "Postcard Road Trip," an interactive online tour of America told through about 60 vintage postcards.
We are pretty sure we know who's going to be playing in those playoffs, and the teams that could sneak in or fall out are mostly regarded as curiosities.
This is the first billion dollar acquisition in Southeast Asia, and a major sign of confidence in e-commerce in the region, but there are plenty of curiosities, too.
LONDON (Reuters) - Stephen Hawking's family have invited time travelers to his memorial service, seeking to tackle one of the curiosities that eluded the British physicist during his extraordinary life.
And that's why this week's collection of Internet curiosities—the secrets of purses, the political activism of variety show producers, the state of Sean Hannity's feelings—feels so right.
If its audience weren't so keen to tease out fantasies of those 'naughty little toes', they would have seen how deranged the sources of Kate's sexual curiosities really were.
"Porn is a lightning rod for our curiosities as a culture and our anxieties around sexuality," says Shira Tarrant, gender and sexuality studies expert, author, and noted porn researcher.
Lil Xan is just one member of a cohort of young musicians who, by embracing a morose sound, have transformed from underground curiosities into stars in the past year.
The collection inside the chamber includes an amber chess set, a bronze model for a Renaissance equestrian monument and a playful jesting figure from a fountain among other curiosities.
Webb would visit flea markets in East Texas with his parents as a young boy, already showing an interest in acquiring such curiosities as baboon skulls and military swords.
Lately, my America has felt too vast and fragmented, and fixating on regional curiosities like state-fair butter sculptures and St. Paul sandwiches only exacerbates this crisis of faith.
Pliny the Elder's skull — or more accurately, his alleged skull — reposes in ghoulish splendor at the Museo Storico Nazionale Dell'Arte Sanitaria in Rome, a treasure trove of medical curiosities.
Tim Reeve, the strategic leader of the project, said V&A East would be "an endlessly changing cabinet of curiosities" from the collection of furniture, fashion, textiles and art.
It promises more than 160 objects by around 80 artists, with some displays in "cabinet of curiosities" concentrations like those Ms. Heckler has arranged in her New York apartment.
Most are amiable curiosities, but "Blonde Venus," directed by Josef von Sternberg, and two pre-Code Mae West films, "She Done Him Wrong" and "I'm No Angel," are classics.
Together, the rooms create a claustrophobic maze, though they more pointedly resemble cabinets of curiosities with jumbles of books, dead animals, laughing masks, acres of rugs and eccentric objets.
Later he turned to ornery lecture-performances, as well as cabinets of curiosities that placed antiquities, machines, consumer goods and art by others into an undifferentiated stream of stuff.
I saw myself being a curator of curiosities, of things that I found interesting that had history, that had some meaning and then I placed them in my home.
In 2009, a bull named "Pepe" was shot and killed by Colombian Army soldiers, igniting debates between rightfully concerned ecologists and those who view the charismatic megafauna as harmless curiosities.
Danielle Cohn is one of those teenage curiosities that most of us old enough to vote (have you registered yet?) don't know much about despite her alarmingly potent online popularity.
Instead of following a fixed and rigid curriculum, each child explores his or her curiosities on the family's 10-acre property in Blenheim, surrounded by waters and bushes and hills.
And despite the notion that youth culture today eschews things for experiences, Nahm, Law and Beland all say there's a brisk business in the flotsam and jetsam of cultural curiosities.
On the second floor the fabulous Cabinet of Art and Curiosities leads to even more often outstanding paintings – Baroque to Modernism – accompanied by an array of decorative objects, especially porcelains.
So, my leisurely meandering through the promiscuous paths of Cabinets of Curiosities promoted a feeling of the world's infinity of things running into my more parsimonious sense of aesthetic pleasure.
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Most of the lighter permutations of modern trap music—as opposed to the more frenetic, bludgeoning strains—owe Makonnen a debt, from Rae Sremmurd, to new curiosities like Trippie Redd.
After toiling in a dreary office job, Barnum finagles a loan to launch a showcase for "unique persons" and "curiosities," treating these "freaks" -- as the rabble calls them -- with respect.
For me, a foreign-raised person who likes America, one of its greatest curiosities is this: that those who have the most reason for dissent are those least allowed dissent.
But yesterday afternoon, we broke new ground in the world of weigh-ins curiosities: a fighter stepped on the scale holding the most shred-worthy guitar you could ever hold.
"I like simple things that have been used all the time, curiosities," he said, as he drew me a map of a few of the streets to hit in Sablon.
Would there come a day when all those shrines and reliquaries would be nothing but Michelin-starred curiosities — left behind, like the great rock faces of Easter Island and Stonehenge?
Much later, I remembered a word that best describes these museums: wunderkammer, a cabinet of curiosities, the dinky and congested collections of objects that were once so popular in Europe.
She now travels full-time with the Oddities and Curiosities Expo and offers other roving classes where students cobble together jackalopes, rabbits and, like the Atlanta class, little white rats.
The European public museum on which American museums are generally modeled are genealogically related to Cabinets of Curiosities, or Kunstkammer and Wunderkammer, that came into being during the European Renaissance.
Other curiosities include the curious combination of beef jerky infused with caffeine, which sounds like a logical culinary combination if you're both an experimental child and don't have a fucking tongue.
The "Carnival of Curiosities" theme is only the latest in the Burtka-Harris' premier group costume game — in fact, they've been setting the boo bar high since the twins were babies.
In 227, we'll see an acceleration of that shift of technologies from the drawing board and geek-only curiosities to consumer devices that change our lives in ways small and big.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (July 21) We're big fans of cinematic curiosities—those absolutely bonkers movies that could end up either amazing or an absolute train wreck.
We've very far beyond the moment in the modern information age when most of the queries and curiosities of digital consumers could be funneled into a single, Google-branded search engine.
Harris dubbed their 2017 look 'The Burtka-Harris Halloween Carnival of Curiosities' — and it looks like an ode to the TV show 'American Horror Story: Freak Show,' which Harris appeared in.
Maximilian himself adored these faces — each constructed out of natural elements associated with one of the four seasons — and exhibited them in his Kunstkammer, in the company of other wondrous curiosities.
Unlike the riot of curiosities that is the late architect's estate, her secluded space (a small building on the edge of the property) is a simplified oasis of calm and introspection.
But it's not bad as cultish science-fiction curiosities go, with the intellectual suspense balancing the soap-opera mechanics of the returnees tracking down the loose ends of their previous lives.
The area has a breakfast room and a butler's pantry that leads to what the owners describe as a cabinet of curiosities: a room with floor-to-ceiling glass display cases.
A 1683 inventory of Oxnead Hall's "best closet"— or his cabinet of curiosities — included a litany of hundreds of naturalia (natural objects), artificialia (human-made objects), and scientifica (objects of science).
With an alligator on the ceiling to taxidermied birds on the shelves, Imperato's collection and its organization quickly came to epitomize Renaissance Europe's Wunderkammer — cabinet of curiosities — and has for centuries.
As a whole, it's well worth a visit — few other exhibits, if any, so authentically balance the science, natural history, and aesthetics so inexorably intertwined in Europe's early cabinets of curiosities.
One of the curiosities of the recent LME zinc stocks trend was that so little was being delivered despite such a hefty cash premium of up to $90 a ton last September.
At the university, surrounded by students and faculty, he's charismatic, a "role model," drawing others into his work; at home he becomes himself again, a researcher focused on satisfying his own curiosities.
One of the curiosities of the recent LME zinc stocks trend was that so little was being delivered despite such a hefty cash premium of up to $90 a tonne last September.
Cabinets of Curiosities, curated by Laurent Le Bon assisted by Patrick Mauriès, at the Hélène & Édouard Leclerc Fund for Culture (Aux Capucins, 29800, Landerneau, Brittany, France) remains open until November 3, 2019.
Yet Company Curiosities is a commendable collection of sources amassed by a scholar who has long worked in the field and gained access to numerous archives, encompassing a staggering array of sources.
But the best way to experience the circus is under a big top, which makes "Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities," to be presented in a pop-up space on Randalls Island, especially exciting.
Have a look at some linguistic curiosities in Malta, where about a third of the words are derived from Arabic, and Kenya, where understated humor comes through in Swahili and English euphemisms.
One of the curiosities of transient global amnesia is that your memory deserts you while you are clearly conscious and able to carry out complex tasks like driving or even playing music.
Is this show about the possibilities of the museum or is it about building a valuable art collection — a cabinet of curiosities with the shiniest and rarest jewels from around the world?
My first day in Jeddah was spent looking through the encyclopedic curiosities of the Al Tayebat City Museum, privately owned four-floor collection ranging from pre-Islamic antiquities to contemporary motivational posters.
The Google-addled cabinet of curiosities toured across Britain, and when it ended Mr. Leckey roughly duplicated many of its objects, then placed them on staggered displays that recalled natural history museums.
Its first ward, Yellowstone National Park, was designated to defend it "from injury or spoliation, of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within," according to the Yellowstone Act of 1872.
It was a cabinet of curiosities, a collection of creatures from far and near, from a time when the world had not yet been fully mapped and science had not subjugated everything.
It's one of the many curiosities of this presidency that the commander in chief whose administration has little connection to Lawfare has also given the blog its biggest moment in the sun.
In other words, cabinets of curiosities are not just the physical curios of their collections — they're the power dynamics of collecting and colonialism that followed the development of natural history for centuries.
" Chamber, located in New York's art gallery-filled Chelsea neighborhood, is described as a "21st century cabinet of curiosities for one-of-a-kind, rare and limited edition objects of design and art.
In this year's Dota 2 "Battle Pass" — a premium subscription that usually offers cosmetics and other optional curiosities to the game — Valve bundled one of the most important features it has ever created.
But some curiosities around the disclosure's timing suggest that Mueller may have wanted to wait until President Donald Trump submitted his answers to some of investigators' questions last week before revealing this news.
Upsets, curiosities, and statistical impossibilities abound in the game logs of history; sometimes a helmet catches a ball, other times a kick sails wide right and you lose four games all at once.
Subtitled "Cabinet of Curiosities," the spectacle is presided over by a character called the Seeker, a mad scientist type with a spike of gray hair atop his head — a proto-man-bun perhaps?
As previously profiled on Hyperallergic, the the museum is located in an East Harlem sanitation garage, and is brimming with curiosities both mundane and rare saved by now retired sanitation worker Nelson Molina.
The historian Constance Classen reminds us that in the eighteenth century touching the objects in proto-museums—cabinets of curiosities and amateur collections—was invited and expected and even, in a way, compulsory.
Many of these silent cartoons are more than mere historical curiosities—they're giddy delights that stand alongside such classic silent live-action comedies as those by Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton.
Perhaps still best known for playing Marty McFly's awkward dad in "Back to the Future," Glover spent the 2000s refashioning himself as an outsider auteur, with the result being these two unclassifiable curiosities.
It is wrong to think of Graham's portraits as the bizarre curiosities of a lesser painter (as one writer has mistakenly characterized him), unless you really believe in hierarchical thinking and status tracking.
Hopefully it will be more useful than the hellscape called Pinterest, which is very good at getting clicks through SEO wizardry but very bad at actually connecting the curious with the curiosities they seek.
Washington (CNN)The Pennsylvania primary is leading some voters to cook up some campaign curiosities, with the latest batch including a restaurant in the small community of Dunmore that offers Hillary Clinton-themed pizza.
Social media is increasingly the internet: Facebook was founded in 2004, and it ate the web as we knew it then — a collection of microsites and curiosities run by so many individual proprietors, individually.
Scattered among the studio's canvases are a tennis cap, an empty bottle of Cava sparkling wine, matchboxes and copies of the local newspaper covered in the artist's scribblings, among many other objects and curiosities.
"Roam is creating a way for people to live according to their interests and curiosities, rather than around the traditional 30-year fixed rate mortgage," said Roam's co-founder Bruno Haid, in a statement.
Trump can't wait for the report One of the curiosities of the Mueller investigation is the way that Trump has often acted as though he has something to hide, despite furiously protesting his innocence.
His last year will be one of those ugly curiosities, like Babe Ruth's 28 games in 1935, or Roy Halladay's grisly 13 starts in 2013, that mark the sudden end to a long career.
Natural resource specialist Peter Schneider and fisheries biologist Don Martin initially set up a beaver camera in 2004 to satiate their curiosities about a collection of food outside the beaver lodge on Steep Creek.
Telluride began in the mid-70s largely as a place to show old, rare and restored films, a commitment that survives in a robust program of classics and curiosities presented by prominent guest directors.
Named after the Josephine Baker song "La Petite Tonkinoise," her collection features repurposed, one-of-a-kind pieces handmade from antique and recycled watch bracelets, beads, brooches and various curiosities discovered at flea markets.
That is, until a chance run-in with independent publisher Frank Haines set off a chain reaction that led to the first issue of "Dead Is Better," a biannual zine cataloging Bennett's morbid curiosities.
On the other side of town, at SideShow Rare and Remarkable Books, Art & Curiosities — which has an aesthetic best described as shack-like — producers occasionally paw through the midcentury pulp fiction collection for material.
The World According to Jeff Goldblum gives audiences a deep dive into his wild mind as he explores his global curiosities — and you're not alone if you're seeing similarities to Forky Asks a Question.
"What you're looking at is a complicated and time-consuming testing period for any single audiovisual work on the web right now," said Andi McClure, designer of numerous web curiosities, including Anti and 4 Cubes.
Yet, that skin-crawling coin purse is among 1.3 million illegal animal skins, skeletons, and other tasteless curiosities held at the National Wildlife Property Repository, a 22,000-square-foot governmental warehouse just north of Denver.
The ondes Martenot's combination of playability and expressiveness have secured it a niche in the canon, while the other musical curiosities of the era—such as the electrochord or the oscilion—have long been forgotten.
The Olympics are a sort of early-20th-century world expo, in which colonial subjects come to perform an Oriental cabinet of curiosities — but this time, paradoxically, what's being performed is the audience's own culture.
Today, Google is, in many ways, a barometer for our contemporary global culture, tracking, aggregating, and collecting data from all of our pressing questions, curiosities, fears (self-diagnoses on WebMD, anyone?), and so much more.
These are not just places, temples, to display beautiful or interesting or strange things that people just come in to look at, more than the old definition of the museum as a cabinet of curiosities.
It was launched in May 2015 as a series of outdoor and indoor installations, with the latter presented as a cabinet of curiosities in a late medieval castle on the grounds of Mr Locatelli's farm.
Make sure to book the Tsitsikamma Falls Waterfall zip line tour, which takes you over the river and through the woods, and then grab a quiche at Tsitrus Cafe, an eatery and museum of curiosities.
In a profound act of cultural erasure, many of these objects were stripped of the particulars of their making and history once they entered the global trade of "rare curiosities," as the exhibit calls it.
The struggle over the nuclear deal in September and October exposed one of the recurring curiosities of this administration: For all the president's love of bullying, he seems unable to turn menace into strategic advantage.
Show Us Your Wall The artist Mark Dion's home-cum-studio in Upper Manhattan conjures the vision of a Renaissance cabinet of curiosities, those "wonder rooms" crammed with eccentric treasures before the age of museums.
Earlier this year, the indie studio Propagate — which also produced "Lore" for Amazon Prime Video based on the writer Aaron Mahnke&aposs podcast of the same name — optioned Mahnke&aposs "Cabinet of Curiosities" from iHeartMedia.
I had popped into Cabinets of Curiosities prepared to consider what the lives of the objects here could tell me about the destruction of cultural values under the French postmodern model that I didn't already know.
Tesla's upcoming Model 3, due out next year, will be the key test for whether the company can morph from a niche manufacturer of expensive curiosities into a mass-market producer of affordable battery-powered vehicles.
Even though their stories are set 50 years apart, their respective journeys lead them to the same place: the Museum of Natural History in New York, where they encounter collections of curiosities that contain unexpected revelations.
If there's ever a positive article about Sanders, it's passed around like wildfire online because it's so shocking that you have to share it with your friends like other online curiosities that are hard to believe.
Archiverse contains roughly 17 terabytes (!!) of data grabbed by a group called Archive Team, an organization committed to backing up Internet curiosities and a guide for people who want to keep track of their own data.
A close friend to Cornelia Parker, Swinton was featured in the installation artist's 1995 exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries, where the actress was on view among other curiosities, resting in a glass box constructed by Parker.
"Our environment is a reflection of the ethos and the curiosities we carry individually and as a couple, who we are at our core and what it means to be transcultural," Ms. Venn Frederic, 37, said.
It is now known for the engagement rings it packs into robin's-egg-blue boxes, as well as curiosities like sterling silver replicas of a paper plate for $1,000 and a ball of yarn for $9,000.
When their husbands filled their wunderkammers, or cabinets of curiosities, with treasures they had looted conquistadoring around the world, wealthy European women created bittersweet tableaux that seemed to exalt their domestic power while accentuating its limits.
"The fact that Brexiteers have chosen time and again to put Brexit in peril rather than put it into effect is one of the enduring curiosities of the Brexit saga," Stephen Paduano writes in Foreign Policy.
"  The famed statue stands in Piazza del Nettuno in the Italian city of Bologna and was chosen by local writer and art historian Elisa Barbari to illustrate her Facebook page called "Stories, curiosities and views of Bologna.
The space is not only home to mathematical curiosities like a 17th century Islamic astrolabe—a way to map the night sky—and an early example of the Enigma machine, but mathematics has also defined its design.
It's also a medium that explores sexuality and gender identity, pushing the limits of a viewer's own perception of what makes them tick and fulfilling inherent human curiosities towards what goes on in the bedrooms of others.
Despite the tawdry erotic intrigue, the movie's plot is less compelling than its strongly controlled mise-en-scène, which, with its abundance of creaky machines and fusty bric-a-brac, evokes a 19th-century cabinet of curiosities.
My favorite exhibition of his took place two years ago, at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, where a panoply of little curiosities, from concrete balls to ruptured sneakers, was carefully arrayed on a tall plinth lit from below.
The book becomes an archive — of curiosities, yearnings, of the life of a new, fragile, fracturing family, animated by the narrator's restless energy as she churns over a way to tell the story of the refugee children.
The hextech lights, the swinging music, the fantastical costumes all featured in Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities; they brought me back to my sci-fi fantasy-loving, 23-year-old self once again, even before the performance began.
The aging design can't provide the drag necessary to slow down payloads much heavier than a ton—a significant problem for NASA given that its longterm Martian dreams involve vehicles that will weigh more than 20 Curiosities combined.
Curio Collection by Hilton, a portfolio of hotels and resorts known for their unique character and personality, wants to encourage travelers to explore the natural curiosities that motivate us to seek out those one-of-a-kind discoveries.
The trouble with delving into this cabinet of curiosities is that while you can spend hours scrolling down an Explore rabbit hole, it isn't all that easy to discover new communities that the Explore algorithm doesn't show you.
Rich with meticulous archival detail and more than 18743 years of the East India Company's history, Company Curiosities provides little in the way of argument or critical intervention, leaving the reader to interpret its vast expanse of material.
The hextech lights, the swinging music, the fantastical costumes all featured in Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities; they brought me back to my sci-fi fantasy-loving, 10-year-old self once again, even before the performance began. 63.
With inspirations spanning modern dance, Italian Pop art and a cabinet of curiosities, Valentino became synonymous with detailed, billowy (and often floor-length) dresses that ultimately earned critics' praise, once Chiuri and Piccioli stepped out from Garavani's shadow.
A case of beeswax sculptures by the Chinese artist Ren Ri looked like an undersea cabinet of curiosities; a fabric work by Louise Bourgeois, a constant inspiration, hung behind the register, a loan from the artist's Easton Foundation.
Mr. Koeppe said that the "Kunstkammer," or cabinets of curiosities that European nobles maintained as "thoughtfully selected collections of objects and instruments, each more beautiful, ingenious or wondrous than the next," were valued for artistic and technological refinement.
On the second floor of the museum, nestled between the Halls of Texas and African Wildlife, the HMNS has faithfully recreated a Renaissance cabinet of curiosities, right down to the sprightly lyre music plucking away in the background.
As much fun as it is cataloging the curiosities in the Dreamcatcher circus, it can never capture the jaw-dropping gestalt of weird lines, baffling character choices (you don't need that fucking toothpick, Beav!), and self-defeating tonal shifts.
With that being said, we've rounded up the most affordable, on-trend pieces from H&M's new fall line that will let you freely explore all of your sartorial curiosities — without ever breaking the bank or compromising on style.
Yet out of all the curiosities encountered during their cultural expedition, a chance piece of trash — ordinary, irrefutable evidence of the tumultuous changes their own bodies are undergoing — proves to be the most monstrous, provoking that primal reaction: violence.
Many of them look less like old curiosities than lost classics, and their range — from the surreal slapstick of "The Drunken Mattress," to the domestic melodrama of "Falling Leaves," to the social satire of "Consequences of Feminism" — is astonishing.
There are tons of curiosities in the CIA's collection of UFO documents , including some referring to the persistent efforts of famous UFO truthers, including Major Donald Keyhoe and chemical engineer Leon Davidson, to declassify CIA documents on UFOs in the 1950s.
There are recent Oscar-winners, intriguing original films, new seasons of acclaimed original series, a handful of worthy cult curiosities, and one of the most anticipated TV returns in recent memory, just waiting for you on your streaming platforms of choice.
" The "natural world" it describes notably omits humans, while its undemocratic underpinnings are clear in the final line: "These museums have their origins in the cabinets of curiosities built up by prominent individuals in Europe during the Renaissance and Enlightenment.
In the early nineteen-seventies, E.L.P., alongside several more or less like-minded British groups—King Crimson, Yes, and Genesis, as well as Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd—went, in the space of a few years, from curiosities to rock stars.
But it seems likely that the last time carbon dioxide emissions were as low as today was in the closing years of the 19th century, when Queen Victoria was on the throne and cars and electric lighting were cutting-edge curiosities.
Miss Peregrine's home — its inhabitants, chambers and time-stuttering enigmas — turns out to be a delightful cabinet of curiosities, those wonder rooms in which (once upon a time before Instagram) collectors stashed marvels like body parts, scientific instruments, odds and ends.
The exhibition mixes pop culture objects (like a shard of a Jimi Hendrix guitar) with curiosities from other areas of public life, like a spacesuit worn by William Anders, an astronaut who traveled to the moon on Apollo 8. vam.ac.uk
People are also less likely to be fazed by spooky things, thanks to an overall cultural shift toward death acceptance — as evidenced by the opening of museums dedicated to mortality, exhibits for morbid curiosities and even the advent of living funerals.
Socialism, at least on the American political scene, seemed destined to join antiquarian curiosities in the annals of left-leaning political agitation, somewhere alongside the transcendentalists' failed commune at Brook Farm, agitations over the Single-Tax, and the temperance movement.
With its wood-paneled Victorian interiors that play host to hundreds of natural history curiosities — the skeleton of a Gorgosaurus libratus, a handwritten letter from Charles Darwin, a taxidermied passenger pigeon — the Redpath Museum is Canada's closest relative to a Wunderkammer.
Some may be there for the science, others for the visual dynamics, or both—either way, with Hall's videos and descriptions of the toys and curiosities, viewers are learning something about the world in a very short amount of time.
One limited, but pretty straightforward explanation for the continued appeal of wearable tech is that, unlike the Thighmaster or 8-Minute Abs before it, the products have evolved from electronic pedometers to reflect the endless curiosities consumers have about their lifestyles.
But he still helped create its highlight, the lofty Gallery, a cross between a great medieval banquet hall and a Victorian museum of curiosities, with glass and iron skylights, pink and green walls, dark leather sofas and dark wood rafters.
Much of his time in the last few years has been devoted to his role as Curator of Curiosities at the Bailey Art Museum in Crockett, where he has created an entire hall devoted to the ongoing exploits of Dr. Gladstone.
If David Cronenberg had chosen sculpture instead of film, he might have created something akin to Antonello Serra and Sara Renzetti's work: surreal humanoid creatures, people encased in Damien Hirst-like tanks, and amorphous blobs of flesh, amongst other fantastical oddities and curiosities.
The true tale of the glass-swallowing gentleman is one of dozens of bizarre cases that writer Thomas Morris dug out of medical literature for his new book, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LANDERNEAU, France — At once pleasurable due to their spectacularly over-determined visual formation, and being pedagogical in presumption and highly malleable in syncretistic fusion, outlandish cabinets of curiosities attest to our desire to dive into the unknown.
I did just that at the Hélène & Édouard Leclerc Fund for Culture's art space when visiting Cabinets of Curiosities; Laurent Le Bon's panoramic curatorial meta-statement that raises from the darkness and makes interesting conjunctions among many disparate things of heterogeneous categories.
GLOCK MAKES MILITARY-GRADE PISTOL AVAILABLE TO CIVILIANS In a recent interview with Fox News, Defense Distributed director Cody Wilson described current 3D-printed guns as "mostly curiosities," and said that the "big" and "bulky" characteristics of the weapons would help identify them.
When visitors voted the image among the top 20 of more than 300 works submitted, it was a victory for Afaq, who wants to make women who look like her more visible and more accepted in public space, as creators rather than curiosities.
Some of Barnum's entertainment tactics were and are not to be emulated — he used people with disabilities as "human curiosities," he purchased a black woman and supported blackface and, in modern times, his namesake circus was accused of the poor treatment of animals.
And whenever the troupe's pageant wagon — a cabinet of curiosities filled with handmade surprises — sits in the middle of the Vineyard's modern stage (both designed by David Zinn) you see in one image the continuity of human creativity in the face of disaster.
The border between curiosities and contenders had never seemed so porous, and new candidates seemed to be parachuting in every week; there was a report the day before that Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York would soon be joining the race.
These exist as vast, geological curiosities that require stone tapping in specific sequences to open wormholes into the past; consequently time travelers are called "geologists," and need to live in proximity to a Machine for four years before the wormholes will admit them.
LONDON — Shaun Leane recently recalled how, in 2015, he stood alone in the "Cabinet of Curiosities," the darkly dramatic, double-height gallery containing work that he and Alexander McQueen had created, part of the "Savage Beauty" exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
King's experimentation comes to the fore in a second, smaller room at MASS MoCA — one she shares with Joseph Beuys's "Lightning with Stag in its Glare" (1958–85) — containing her models and works in progress housed in a kind of cabinet of curiosities.
It's difficult to tease apart the abuse of these circumstances to the damage of living without language, except to say that those who lose their language processing modules later in life show behavioral curiosities that we might otherwise assume were due to childhood abuses.
Less user-centric teams will do the opposite: look for ways to make their own work easier or more efficient, look to optimize their own sub-team metrics, or satisfy their own personal curiosities—and leave the user to orient themselves around their organizational efficiencies.
Opening impressions are established with an enormous blown-up mural of the frontispiece engraving from the 1599 Ferrante Imperato Dell'Historia Naturale book and Domenico Remps trompe-l'oeil painting — faux cracked glass and all — of a gluttonous cabinet of curiosities "Scarabattolo" (1690), seemingly bursting its seams.
In 231, for example, physicians George Gould and Walter Pyle published their observations of one 30-year-old woman in New York in Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, noting that she had "cut her left wrist and right hand" in late September of 1876.
One of the final rooms in particular, billed as a "cabinet of curiosities", contains scattered insights into their individual lives: Mr Jagger's makeup chair, for example, bought at the time he started wearing eyeliner; Mr Watts' pearly dressing gown, and Mr Richards' travelling wardrobe.
Later, she would open two successful "lifestyle" shops on the Upper East Side and in Southampton, from which, until the bottom fell out of the financial market in 2008, she sold chic housewares and decorative curiosities like articulated bone models of lobsters made in Japan.
The story of Simonides is somewhat grisly, but I would like to borrow the association of recollection and location it in order to build a tiny — and admittedly idiosyncratic — memory theater of Athens: a personal cabinet of memory spaces and places: treasures, oddities and curiosities.
A Fez tannery appears among thousands of other beguiling and quirky wonders in the richly annotated ATLAS OBSCURA: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (Workman, $35), a wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper devised by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton.
The list includes some curiosities, such as Mike Lee, the senator from Utah (who revealed, the morning after the election, that he had voted for the Independent Evan McMullin), and Margaret Ryan, who serves on the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
The show was great at character-driven stories and showing how the island (generally) turned them all into better people, but it did so in an exciting way by making those stories play out among the many mysteries, questions, and curiosities of the island.
The first time I visited the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, I wandered entranced through galleries packed with curiosities to open a door onto an uncanny re-creation of a Central Asian courtyard, a rooftop columbarium of fountains and ferns, statuary and stillness.
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This year has been massive for Van Ness who, in addition to killing it as a TV star, saw his podcast, Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, rise to the top of the iTunes charts, beating out The Joe Rogan Experience and Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities.
Here I am—decidedly large and strange and prone to volatile curiosities, living with my old man, who talks to the TV and works infrequently and everyone thinks he's my grandfather, and the un-house-broken dog urinating and defecating with abandon all over the place.
From Thursday to Sunday, Diptyque will have a pop-up at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Boerum Hill for La Collection 2495, an assortment of scented candles ($10003), bird notebooks ($21000) and other curiosities named for the perfumer's original address at 26 Boulevard St.-Germain.
Designed from 1921 to 803, Mr. Ponti's work ranged across practical objects like a cobalt-fronted magazine rack and matching desk created for the Italian Cultural Institute and curiosities like the eighth-floor auditorium pavilion peeking out from the top of New York's Time & Life building.
Imagine a sex ed class that taught you not only basic anatomy and disease prevention, but also encouraged you to reclaim sexual pleasure after a traumatic experience, helped you unlearn the shame associated with growing up in a religious or homophobic household, and non-judgmentally listened to your curiosities.
In addition to the cabinet-of-curiosities set by Ms. Kalman, who also appears as a version of herself, that world is inhabited by seven dancers, actor Daniel Pettrow and four musicians performing an animated score by Colin Jacobsen of "The Knights," which gently rocks between fanciful and melancholy.
There's also plenty to do that isn't witch-themed, like a visit to the Peabody-Essex Museum, founded in 1799 as the East India Marine Society, a "cabinet of natural and artificial curiosities" where local captains involved in the China trade donated items from their wide-ranging travels.
In other words: welcome to the dollhouse, the morgue, the cabinet of curiosities, the surgical amphitheater, the last days of Christ (and the French monarchy); the circus, the sideshow, the travails of Christian martyrs and the Greek Golden Age as resurrected by the Romans, the Renaissance and Neo-Classicism.
Mr. Buergel in places seems so eager to jettison the logic of the imperial museum that he risks recreating an earlier model of artistic display: the cabinet of curiosities, in which 17th-century princes and potentates showed off small, surprising objects from a range of arts and sciences.
A section called "Masterpieces and Curiosities" focuses on a single object: currently, an extraordinary charm bracelet made by Greta Perlman in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, whose modest bangles (a bullet, a lice comb, a miniature ladle) testify to the endurance of individual creation in the face of barbarity.
It's like playing in the toybox of someone else's imagination, or like that little box of curiosities you had as a child, a sewing kit tin full of buttons and weird-looking coins and bits of fabric that meant nothing to adults, but everything to you—trophies of your own adventures.
By turning reassignment surgery into a dark plot point — a kind of punishment the lead, who never identifies as trans, must overcome on his path to revenge — it plays into the destructive notion that surgery is the defining event in a trans person's life, while also reducing them to medical curiosities.
At Mr. Manafort's old office on Sofiivska Street, new tenants said they had discovered several curiosities apparently left behind, including a knee X-ray signed by Mr. Yanukovych, possibly referring to tennis matches played between Mr. Manafort and Mr. Yanukovych, who had spoken publicly of a knee ailment affecting his game.
BÖHLER/BLUMKA/LAUE Upstairs in the newly reopened period rooms, three dealers — Julius Böhler, Blumka Gallery and Georg Laue — have teamed up to create a Wunderkammer, or a cabinet of curiosities, even using a 17th-century painting of the subject by Georg Hinz in the Hamburger Kunsthalle as their guide.
Together, Blackman and Cruz have created an inimitable look in their 9,500-square-foot Highland Avenue space (a former gay nightclub) — an eccentric mash-up of furniture, lighting, art and curiosities that spans numerous periods and styles, from exquisite, stately antiques to arresting contemporary pieces: Carlo Bugatti, say, to Damian Jones.
Advertised as a "contemporary cabinet of curiosities," the store resembles an outré natural history museum with artist-made products like armored copper lamps standing on brass octopus tentacles and hawk's feet; bird and snake specimens mounted in frames as art; and rings cradling large chunks of rock crystal and pyrite.
" In a telephone interview, Tracy Hurley Martin, the museum's chief executive and the founder referred to in the statement, put the museum's annual budget at about $300,000 a year, including $10,000 monthly rent but not what she called the "substantial costs" of developing the space into "a beautiful cabinet of curiosities.
When: Opens Sunday, August 7 Where: Union Station (800 N. Alameda St., Downtown, Los Angeles) Taking inspiration from the 16th-century phenomenon of the Wunderkammer — encyclopedic collections of disparate objects that could be considered proto-museums — Cabinet of Curiosities features works by Los Angeles artists that are meant to inspire wonder.
As Dr. NakaMats's "last days on Earth" were jam-packed with numerous social engagements, it fell to his long-time employee and events and sales coordinator Natsuyo Matsu to take me on a tour of the Dr NakaMats library—a kind of cabinet of curiosities where all his past inventions are stored.
It contains a host of scientific curiosities, including a wide variety of marine life, coral reefs (including a 500-year-old coral head called Big Momma that stands 21 feet (6.4 meters) tall), hydrothermal vents, and many items of archaeological interest (this area is located in the cradle of Polynesia's oldest culture).
Sure, Oxford has plenty of somber art and artifacts to admire (for those, the Ashmolean is an excellent choice), but don't skip the peculiar collections of Pitt Rivers, a Victorian-era museum beloved by locals for its vast array of curiosities culled from the farthest reaches of the British Empire, and beyond.
British readers will smile at the mere mention of Godalming, a Surrey commuter town whose neat gentility smacks more of "Brief Encounter" than the traveling Exhibition of Medical Curiosities that sweeps us, in the novel's first chapter, into the untidy and ungentle world of customs and values we now claim to abhor. Godalming!
From a UFO-shaped monument in the middle of the Balkans to a gigantic hole in Turkmenistan that has been on fire for nearly 50 years, prepare to be amazed and delighted by the curiosities he came back with — and pick up a copy of the new book for even more bucket-list inspiration.
One of several elaborate-but-fake NX controller images (Imgur) Given that it's a Nintendo machine, there's been much speculation about what the controller will be like — Nintendo isn't a company that's afraid to experiment with new types of controllers, after all, otherwise we wouldn't have curiosities like the Wii remote or Wii U Gamepad.
No, I've never been to jail, but I remember hearing about shanks on some 90s documentary and then seeing them in the flesh at a curiosities sale in the US. I've always been into folk art or outsider art, and when I first saw them I didn't see them as weapons but as sculptural pieces.
HBO doesn't expect "Game of Thrones"-type ratings (the most recent season finale drew 8.9 million viewers), but it hopes "Westworld" can end a five-year slide defined by minor-key curiosities like "The Leftovers" and expensive failures like "Vinyl," the 1970s music business show that was canceled in June after its first season.
The prose initially comes off as deliberately breezy in the style of Stephen Greenblatt, but once Johnson gets the opportunity to slow down and show off her research, each paragraph pops open like an overstuffed but delightful cabinet of curiosities — an appropriate metaphor for the scientific polymathy (or perhaps dilettantism) of the Enlightenment gentlemen she's writing about.
Meaning "Martenot waves", the ondes Martenot is far from the earliest electronic instrument, yet most that came before were curiosities (like the clavecin électrique, a bell-ringing machine invented by a Jesuit priest in 1759) or highly impractical (it took 30 railroad flatcars to ship Thaddeus Cahill's 200-ton telharmonium, invented in 1896, from Massachusetts to New York).
While Republicans had a sufficiently deep bench that 17 people ran for president this year, Democrats do not appear to have as much talent ready for the big leagues — one of the curiosities of the era of President Barack Obama, who ignited rare passion in young voters and political activists when he ran for president in 2008.
He considers, among other historical curiosities, the neon compulsions of the Italian Futurists; the Soviet program of "neonization"; the Nazi's deployment of neon for propaganda purposes; Baudelaire's "halo" and Benjamin's "aura"; neon as a gas and crystallized chaos; neon and power; neon and capitalism—all of this backlit by an original reading of Sartre's Being and Nothingness.
He (and this giant sound snob would have to be a man, in pull-on boots) would perhaps linger longest over the steampunk components and curiosities to be found in a spacious loft on the top floor of an industrial building in Dumbo—the showroom of Oswalds Mill Audio, and the lair of its principal and founder, Jonathan Weiss.
Their first collection, which debuts next month during the Milan Furniture Fair, features a wide range of collectibles: spare, clean-lined wood and leather furniture by the architect Rafael Moneo; tabletop curiosities like a leather mail tray and a brass magnifying glass; brightly colored, geometric wallpaper by the illustrator Nigel Peake; and a vanity cabinet with folding canvas doors.
On this side, "Gold Zone" will stream daily offering condensed reviews of competition; "Off the Post" will be a live hockey studio show after each day's final game; the social-focused, short-form video series "Ever Wonder" will feature curiosities of the Games; and a digital exclusive version of "Olympic Ice" will review figure skating highlights.
"Masterpieces and Curiosities" presents a collection of the square-format catalogs that she made for the museum, including a fittingly stark one with a single black box on the cover for a 220 Ad Reinhardt show, as well as her more personal abstract paintings, in which she occasionally allowed her Modernist precision to go dreamy around the edges.
But I had curiosities and crushes, and I came to confide these to my uncle over the handful of day trips and conversations it took him to secure my trust, and for me to love him, as briefly I did, as a girl can come to love a man who is like a father to her.
When the doors opened, the women, both accountants at a private equity firm around the corner, were greeted by three double-height windows with delicate ironwork, a 24-foot pewter-cast bar with a glass inset holding curiosities from another era, and a mounted albino pheasant with its wings spread over a curated collection of spirits.
The turnaround started in season 2, but the second half of season 3 and the first half of season 4 have been even more sublime, with episodes featuring a giant talking teddy bear, a flesh-eating unicorn, a summer-camp swamp monster, a trip back to the early career of Godzilla director Ishirō Honda, and many, many more curiosities and wonders.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The current exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Masterpieces & Curiosities: The Fictional Portrait, does a few remarkable things, perhaps the most remarkable being that it begins to turn the institution inside out, to make not only its collection available to the visitor, but also the policies and procedures that underlie how it augments and organizes its collection.
There's a lot going on in this film, but that's in keeping with its organizing concept: that the world is a kind of large-scale cabinet of curiosities (the collections of interesting things people used to keep in their homes eventually evolved into museums), and that our job, as we live, is to keep track of the things and people that are precious to us.
Now in its third season, the Orchestra Now will perform an intriguing program at Carnegie on Thursday that includes Bartók's classic "Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion, and Orchestra" with soloists Anna Polonsky and Peter Serkin, but also two substantive curiosities: the Turkish composer Ahmed Adnan Saygun's snarling Fourth Symphony, and László Lajtha's Symphony No. 23, a colorfully stirring commemoration of the suppressed 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Then, this year, Ms. Ebenstein heard that "The Kittens' Wedding" had been bought at auction for nearly $120,000 by J. D. Powe, an educational software entrepreneur and collector who had previously lent pieces to the museum, in partnership with Antediluvian Antiques & Curiosities, a dealer in Lake Placid, N.Y. It was subsequently sold to Sabrina Hansen, the founder of a cat sanctuary in Catskill, N.Y., who agreed to the loan.
The stereoscopic cinema of the 1950s returns to MoMA with three major curiosities: "The Maze" (screening on Monday and Tuesday), a bit of gothic horror directed by the celebrated production designer William Cameron Menzies and restored with assistance from Martin Scorsese and his Film Foundation; "Cease Fire" (on Monday and Wednesday), which took cameras into the Korean War; and "Inferno" (on Tuesday and Wednesday), a Technicolor noir with Robert Ryan.
" By the end of the 19th century, the American physician George M. Gould and his colleague Walter L. Pyle listed, in their book "Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine," a number of instances of men suckling infants, including an unverifiable report, relayed by 16th-century missionaries in Brazil, claiming "there was a whole Indian nation whose women had small and withered breasts, and whose children owed their nourishment entirely from the males.
Their house is full of curiosities: a crude, expressionist Kris Martin sculpture, made of plastic foam and cast in bronze; a massive lattice-textured painting by Garth Weiser, on moiré pattern; fictions within fictions in Agnieszka Kurant's "Phantom Library"; a cardboard beer box maquette by Danh Vo; Abraham Cruzvillegas's accumulated ephemera, painted and arranged above the couple's couch; the "Time Keeper" by Pierre Huyghe, a core of paint layers cut from a wall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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