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24.03.2023 / 04:15

NYC’s Museum of Failure opens to make us feel better about our lives

to its website, offering what it calls a “fascinating learning experience” into failed innovation. “Every item provides unique insight into the risky business of innovation,” continues the site. “The museum aims to stimulate productive discussion about failure and inspire us to take meaningful risks.” The Museum of Failure showcases more than 159 retail items that didn’t quite take off, including the infamous and much-reviled Google Glass and the ill-fated DeLorean car, which was made famous by the “Back to the Future” franchise.Other items that made the museum’s not-so-hallowed halls include 1985’s Coke II — also known as New Coke and revisited in Season 3 of the mid-’80s-nostalgic Netflix series “Stranger Things” — as well as the 2003 Nokia N-Gage smartphone, which despite its failure in the US helped jump-start Finland’s mobile gaming industry.

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06.03.2023 / 21:05

Prince William, Kate figures horrify at ‘worst’ wax museum: ‘Scared me’

more than 13.5 million views.“Come with me to the worst wax museum in Poland,” invites influencer Becka Blackburn in the clip.For the uninitiated, the Krakow Wax Museum — which boasts a measly 2.5 stars out of five on TripAdvisor — has become an international laughingstock for its dodgy celebrity wax figures, which are notorious for looking nothing like their subject matter. Highlights depicted in the video include a cock-eyed Donald Trump, a jaundiced Jack Sparrow and a David Guetta that looks more like the DJ and producer’s Cro Magnon ancestor.However, none hold a candle to the botched doppelgängers of Prince William, 40, and his wife, Kate Middleton, 41, who were infamously ripped in Prince Harry’s 2023 tell-all memoir “Spare.”Their less-than-flattering wax “lookalikes” depict Kate Middleton boasting a preternaturally large forehead and blond — rather than brown — hair.

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29.06.2022 / 01:25

This is now the most expensive museum in New York City

9/11 Memorial Museum ($26), the Guggenheim Museum ($25), the Museum of Modern Art ($25), the Whitney Museum of American Art ($25), the American Museum of Natural History ($22 or pay-what-you-wish for NY, NJ and Conn. residents), the Brooklyn Museum ($16) and the Jewish Museum ($15). Up until 2018, the Met’s pay-what-you-wish policy extended to visitors from around the globe, the last museum in the world to have such broad guidelines.

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13.05.2022 / 08:25

Florida museum features massive scenic backdrops from iconic films

“Art of the Hollwood Backdrop” presents 22 immense canvases from classics like “North by Northwest,” “The Sound of Music” and “Ben Hur” that were were rescued from a musty MGM Studios basement.“The exhibition celebrates Hollywood’s masters of illusion and perspective, who heretofore have received little recognition for their talent or applause for their essential role in making film magic,” the museum said on its site.The backdrops, which are on loan from the University of Texas at Austin, were used in movies from 1938 through 1968, while some have not been tied to specific films.Curators Karen Maness and Thomas Walsh also sought to find and feature the forgotten artists behind each piece. The duo spent hours combing through oral histories and other archives and were able to identify about a dozen of the canvas creators.Maness, a professor at the University of Texas, wrote a book on the history of movie backdrops in 2016 and organized a similar exhibition at the college.That exhibit sold out regularly even during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with attendees marveling at the gigantic Mount Rushmore canvas featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic thriller.“I carry it on with both a love of painting but also as an advocate for these artists to help them be seen in history.

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05.02.2022 / 02:33

Times Square’s RiseNY exhibit brings NYC’s Disneyfication to new low

hosted more than its fair share of Instagram museums. But the new immersive experience, RiseNY — an assortment of random cultural artifacts paired with a theme-park ride, and shoehorned into an otherwise drab Midtown storefront — might be the most absurd yet. Now in previews in Times Square, this $28-per-person tourist trap offers audiences a “three-part journey” through the five boroughs’ history that will purportedly “help the city soar to new heights” as it “rebound[s] from the pandemic in an extraordinary way,” as the press materials for the exhibit say. In reality, it is a charmless, New York-themed highlight reel of pop art spread across three windowless floors.

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29.09.2021 / 19:27

Museum pays artist $84K — he delivers 2 blank canvases titled ‘Take the Money and Run’

charging $120,000 for a banana was highway robbery, a Danish museum gave an artist $84,000 to use in a commissioned piece — only to have him pocket the cash and turn in two blank canvases cheekily entitled “Take the Money and Run.”The blank robbery occurred after the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg asked Danish artist Jens Haaning to re-create two of his prior works: 2010’s “An Average Danish Annual Income” and “An Average Austrian Annual Income,” first exhibited in 2007, CBS News reported.

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09.09.2021 / 04:47

Art collector says van Gogh authenticators are wrong

he claims is a long lost work by the Dutch master. But the museum has reason to think it’s a faux Van Gogh.As The Post previously reported, Pivar filed a complaint with the New York County Supreme Court on Tuesday alleging that the museum was negligent because it failed to view the painting in real life, and made its judgement based on pictures.

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29.06.2021 / 22:07

Picasso, Mondrian works returned after 2012 construction worker heist

Reuters reported.The cache included Picasso’s 1939 portrait “Head of a Woman,” and Mondrian’s 1905 painting, “Landscape with a Mill,” a rare representational work from the Dutch cubist painter.A pen-and-ink sketch by Renaissance artist Guglielmo Caccia was originally included in the haul but discarded after being damaged shortly after the heist took place.The suspect, a construction worker, according to the Independent, acted alone in the early morning hours on Jan. 9, 2012 when he mislead guards by tripping multiple alarms before ultimately breaking and removing the works.

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19.04.2021 / 20:24

‘Prejudice’ exposed? Jane Austen’s links to slavery ‘interrogated’

over Jane Austen’s connections with slave plantations.A museum dedicated to the “Pride & Prejudice” author, located at her old home in the Hampshire village of Chawton, is reportedly investigating the Austen family’s place in “Regency era colonialism,” as evidenced by Austen’s love of tea, clothing and other refinements.

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30.03.2021 / 20:35

The Louvre museum makes its entire collection viewable online

on its website.This includes works that would not even be viewable to most museum visitors, including pieces that are on long-term loans abroad, in storage or otherwise not currently on display. It also includes works that were recovered following World War II and are pending return to their legitimate owners.“Today, the Louvre unveils its treasures, even the most unknown,” said Louvre director and president Jean-Luc Martinez in a press release.

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02.03.2021 / 19:43

Shelia Washington (1960–2021), museum founder who helped exonerate the Scottsboro Boys

Shelia Washington was instrumental in the exoneration of the Scottsboro Boys, nine young Black men who were wrongfully convicted of raping two white women in a famous 1935 case.The Scottsboro Boys – Haywood Patterson, Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Andy Wright, Roy Wright, Olin Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, and Eugene Williams – were riding on a freight train through Tennessee when a white mob tried to force them from the train and later accused them of raping two white women. When their case was heard in Scottsboro, Alabama, eight of the young men were convicted and sentenced to death.

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19.02.2021 / 20:21

Living Dead Museum rises again to salute classic horror film

MONROEVILLE, Pennsylvania — It’s no surprise that a museum dedicated to zombies couldn’t stay in its grave for long.The Living Dead Museum, an institution dedicated to honoring the seminal 1968 zombie film “Night of the Living Dead” and its auteur, George Romero, had been a fixture in downtown Evans City since 2013. The film was shot in and around the small Butler County community that prides itself on being the birthplace of the zombie genre.But in October, the museum closed its Evans City doors — only to rise again the following month at the Monroeville Mall, where the sequel “Dawn of the Dead” was filmed.

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30.08.2020 / 08:57

New Yorkers celebrate reopening weekend for museums

reopening weekend at many city museums and other cultural institutions, pumping their fists triumphantly as they entered the Metropolitan Museum of Art Saturday for the first time since the coronavirus closed its doors on March 13.Masked Met visitors had their temperatures checked before browsing museum collections behind mandatory facemasks.The museum had been opened to members on Friday, but Saturday was the first day the general public could enjoy the exhibits.It was the first weekend after Gov.

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29.08.2020 / 01:17

NYC museums reopening: Everything you need to know

months-long hiatus of the city’s beloved institutions since the coronavirus pandemic hit in March. Gyms and bowling alleys are also allowed to reopen with safety precautions, and movie theaters are expected to return next.Still, it won’t be a free-for-all in the galleries’ great halls once they’re open to the public.

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10.07.2020 / 06:30

Virtual art tours from Brooklyn, Whitney Museums to lift your spirits

Their doors are closed, but the art lives on — online. The city’s museums are sharing their treasures virtually, whether it’s a festival of home movies from Moma or a curated cocktail hour from the Frick Collection. Their Instagram accounts are full of so many tours, talks and craft activities that it’s overwhelming That’s why we asked a few curators to cull through their collections and pick a couple of pieces that bring them joy. With any luck, they’ll lift your spirits, too.

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09.07.2020 / 02:34

Inside the American Museum of Natural History’s colorful new exhibit

As the theme song for the old TV show “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color” goes, “The world is a carousel of color . . . wonderful, wonderful color!”

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