Museumpalooza

Museumpalooza takes a non-traditional approach to museums & all the cool stuff inside of them. Created by @ADuffie26 & her miniature T-Rex.

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studying Rothko like

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These birds in James Prosek’s “Avian Composition III” (2018) at @theamoncarter are really, REALLY bad at #SocialDistancing.

The composition of the image is actually a reference to field guides, which help… https://t.co/TQ9JK1brHS

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Who else could use a burst of color on this dreary #MuseumpaloozaMonday?

“I have painted what each flower is to me and I have painted it big enough so that others would see what I see.” - Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Red Cannas” (1927) at @theamoncarter

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Oh deer! 2019 got kinda crazy, and #TimTheTRex and I went on a bit of an unexpected break. But the good news is that it’s 2020, and we’re back to populate your feed with awesome art - like this giant fiberglass deer… https://t.co/ZIXNUFpMoW

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Happy holidays from #Museumpalooza! May your days be merry and bright.🎄🎁🕯🥂

(Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin” at @blantonmuseum) #KellyAtTheBlanton #TimTheTRex

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“Aurora Borealis” by Fredrick Edwin Church (1865) depicts the ship of Arctic explorer, Issac Israel Hayes, frozen in ice at the base of a cliff beneath the shimmering Northern Lights. (So… https://t.co/m44IrXGOrQ

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Celebrating #Thanksgiving Week with everybody’s favorite prehistoric bird-relative, Tyrannosaurus Rex! (This one’s at @nmnh.)

Did you know that T-Rexes and other theropod dinosaurs had… https://t.co/8ClRFRccVO

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In an age where photography is as ubiquitous as pointing your phone at something cool in a museum and applying an Instagram filter (#irony), Laurie Simmons’ show #BigCameraLittleCamera at… https://t.co/SFxb1ui4Zw

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A special #Halloween flashback to when #TimTheTRex and I visited @hollywoodmuseum’s replica of Hannibal Lector’s cell from “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991). Sir Anthony Hopkin’s… https://t.co/p744YvRT49

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Happy #Halloween week! Today we’re getting into the spirit of the season with a throwback to Misty Keasler’s HAUNT exhibit at @themodernfw last year, a “spook-tacular” collection of photos… https://t.co/8HXUUkjl91

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Fun fact: Because jellyfish don’t have a skeleton (or heads, hearts, or brains), it’s rare to find fossils of them. However, there’s evidence that jellyfish pre-date dinosaurs by more… https://t.co/BcPLU3Udzl

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When the #Hindu god Shiva accidentally beheaded his son Ganesha (these things happen, right?), he quickly revived Ganesha by replacing his head with that of an elephant. 😵🐘 Perhaps that’s… https://t.co/zQTMlsxRwo

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#FlashbackFriday to Fritz Bultman’s “Sun Figure” at @noma1910. Bultman grew up in #NewOrleans, and though he went on to work with such artistic luminaries as Hans Hoffman and Jackson… https://t.co/cBOMxxAhJj

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We’re celebrating the first #MuseumpaloozaMonday in October with a pumpkin-colored #Rothko painting from @crystalbridges! 🎃🍂 #PumpkinSpicePainting
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[Mark Rothko, “No. 210/211 (Orange)”,… https://t.co/hfCkTzkS1r

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Bells in ancient China weren’t made in what we think of as the traditional “bell shape” - a hollow cup with a wide mouth at the bottom, and a clapper inside.
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In the Bronze Age, bells in… https://t.co/TtjAGhfnTF

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#FlashbackFriday to Gabriel Dawe’s “Plexus No. 27”, located above a stairwell at @crystalbridgesmuseum. Dawe’s “Plexus” series is composed of large-scale networks of thread, sewn together and displayed in ways that explore the visible spectrum of light.

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“The aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.” - Frank Stella

(Stella’s… https://t.co/BYRGIUPQF2

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“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich… https://t.co/YgcZwmwAbc

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Happy #BatmanDay! While the Dark Knight was nowhere to be found at the @smithsoniannmnh, we did find a Black Flying Fox, one of the largest bats in the world. Unlike Bruce Wayne, Flying Foxes don’t spend their spare time brooding in caves - they roost mostly in swamps and trees.

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We’re feeling the #autumn colors in Clyfford Still's "PH 971" (1957) at sfmoma today. Along with #MarkRothko and #BarnettNewman, Still helped spearhead the Color Field movement, creating… https://t.co/2KrnNp21BM