The Museum of Unnatural History

Anyone up for a trip to Newark?

Art Review – Constructive Spirit – History Lesson in Geometric Abstraction at the Newark Museum – NYTimes.com.

New Scientist.

Curious: the Craft of Microscopy is a new exhibition at the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, London. It traces the history of microscopy and scientific discovery through a range of fascinating slides, some dating back to the…

YouTube – The Need for Reed I – Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Marry got married  and wished us all a merry Christmas. Anyone from New York will tell you that the three M-words above are all pronounced differently.

Yinz know what I’m talking about?

IDEA – The International Dialects Of English Archive.

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Flickr: The Autografik Pool.

The center, a mad work of architectural megalomania and historical recovery, is one of the strangest but most memorable museum buildings to open in ages. Imagine an Art Deco version of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon stretching nearly the height of the Empire State Building, its decorations coded with Armenian symbolism.

via Abroad – Armenians Greet Their New Extravaganza of a Museum – NYTimes.com.

Negro League baseball museum proposed for Baltimore

The plan calls for redeveloping Pennsylvania Avenue’s historic Sphinx Club and adjacent properties with a sports-themed museum, entertainment and dining complex designed to draw tourists and help rejuvenate the corridor.

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TECHNOVIKING ARCHIVE.

Because why not, right?

Jonathan Jones asks if Artemisia Gentileschi deserves more credit than her father, Orazio, and if he got the limelight solely because of his gender.