"A museum is a secular temple to inspiration."
From this video in which people are asked 'what is the most important function of a museum ( Read more... )

Curiosity Cabinet update. This time it is on lawns, that place where we ritually display our dominance over nature and our conformity to the expectations of our society, and where some people have the gall to plant food.

Curiosity Cabinet update. I know, I know, it's still pedagogy. I swear I will get to some landscape stuff this weekend.

Who feels like vomiting? I didn't, and yet: behold, the worst thing I've read in ages. Weekly Standard, keep your mitts off the Field Museum or I will be forced to perform some ritual sacrifice on your man-tackle.