Plant and animal waxes
When Tussaud established her exhibition working in london, she setup her historic or royal figures, but additionally produced a so-known as “Separate Room” to retain the more crazy products, such as the shocking dying masks of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI, an Egyptian mummy, execution scenes of well known French crooks, along with a …
When Ralphie Parker&rsquos fourth Grade class dejectedly give their wax fangs to Mrs. Shields within the perennial holiday movie favorite, A Christmas Story, legions of grownups are advised of the items a cent accustomed to buy in their local Woolworth’s store. But there’s much more to those paraffin playthings than the usual penny’s price of …
That Old, Weird America: Folk Styles in Contemporary Art, in the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, through This summer 20, 2008, bills itself as “the first museum exhibition look around the prevalent resurgence of people imagery and history in American contemporary art.” Possibly a much better exhibition title could have been That Old, Haunted America.* The …