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Posted on May 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

Item: Charles Dickens‘s letter opener. “The handle is made from the paw of Dickens’s pet cat Bob, and the blade is engraved ‘C. D. In Memory of Bob 1862,’ the year of the cat’s death.”

Where: New York Public Library.

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Posted on April 9, 2012 | Leave a comment

Piece: Raquel Welch. Sculpture in epoxy resin by Frank Gallo. 1969.

Where: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Washington, D.C.

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Posted on February 5, 2012 | 2 comments

Item: A photograph of a little girl with a pack of cigarettes, taken in October 1932 by James Jarché for the Daily Herald.

Item: A photograph of a little girl pouring whisky, taken in October 1932 by James Jarché for the Daily Herald.

Where: National Media Museum. Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

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Posted on December 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

Piece: Liberace’s Christmas Cards.

Where: Liberace Museum. Las Vegas, NV.

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Posted on November 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

Item: The Horseman of the Apocalypse, two cadavers prepared by Honoré Fragonard between 1766 & 1771.

Where: Musée Fragonard. Maisons-Alfort, France.

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Posted on August 12, 2011 | Leave a comment

Piece: Calder’s Circus. 1926–31. Wire, wood, metal, cloth, yarn, paper, cardboard, leather, string, rubber tubing, corks, buttons, rhinestones, pipe cleaners and bottle caps.
Alexander Calder, (United States, 1898-1976).

Where: Whitney Museum of American Art.

Elephant and Trainer (Detail of Calder’s Circus).

Fanni, the Belly Dancer (Detail of Calder’s Circus).

Little Clown, the Trumpeteer (detail of Calder’s Circus).

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Posted on July 16, 2011 | Leave a comment

Item: Wrong, 1966-1968
John Baldessari (United States, 1931)
Painting, Photoemulsion with acrylic on canvas

Where: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Posted on June 12, 2011 | Leave a comment

Item: Odalisque in Grisaille, ca. 1824–34
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867) and Workshop
Oil on canvas

Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY.

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Posted on June 2, 2011 | Leave a comment

Item: Prince‘s yellow-cloud guitar. Custom-made by the Minneapolis, MN firm of Knut-Koupee Enterprises. Designed and used by Prince. 1989.

Where: Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Washington, D.C.

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Posted on May 11, 2011 | Leave a comment

Item: A photograph of a fishmonger slicing into a tuna fish, taken in August 1933 by Leslie Cardew for the Daily Herald.

The tuna weighed 640 lbs (290.3 kg). Caught off the coast of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, it is pictured for sale in a fishmongers in Camberwell, London.

Where: National Media Museum. Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

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