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"Punk began as an impulse, as a feeling," curator Andrew Bolton said during a press preview this morning. And it was Television's Richard Hell that first had the spontaneous impulse, in the mid-'70s, to shred his T-shirt, holding it together with safety pins, spike his hair, ultimately influencing the Sex Pistols, and introducing punk wear to the world.
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Have you ever wondered what Alex Rodriguez's favorite works of art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art are? Would you have guessed they include a Manet, a Thomas Eakins, a 10th-11th century Sicán funerary mask and a Rauschenberg among others? Well, that's what the museum's newest ad campaign with the theme "My Met" shares, in addition to revealing the tastes of other celebrities like Claire Danes, Marc Jacobs, Carmelo and La La Anthony, Hugh Jackman, Zaha Hadid and Seth Meyers. The campaign, which debuted in the New York Times March 15, also features an interactive aspect in which people can highlight their own preferences in the collection answering the question "What's Your Met?" Runnin' Scared got a chance to speak with the Met's Director Thomas Campbell about the campaign, the choice of celebrities and social media.
Psycho Tank, part of Carsten Höller's "Experience" exhibit at the New Museum, just got a little less psycho. The instillation calls for up to six visitors to disrobe, shower, and float in a highly saline bath in order to provide a unique sensory-deprivation experience. Sounds fun! Unfortunately, the Post reports the Department of Health has warned the museum that Psycho Tank doesn't have the prerequisite permits the city demands of bathhouses, and from now on only one person is allowed to enjoy the artwork at a time. 
NOT Carsten Höller's 'Psycho Tank'
The New Museum is getting a slide! A Belgian artist named Carsten Höller, who has already installed slides in other cities around the world, is putting a big plastic slide in the Bowery museum. Like, really big, at least for indoors: the slide is 40 feet high and 102 feet long. Its installation begins next week and the slide will be open for "business" October 26th. 
flickr Holler's slide at the Tate Modern.
A series of metal plates covers one of the four interior walls of the Elevator Historical Society's newly opened museum in Long Island City. Placed in the center of the leftmost panel is founder and curator Patrick Carrajat's first acquisition, a small silver cover for an elevator interlock taken from a pile of material set to be discarded after he had helped out his father, an elevator mechanic, on a job in 1955. 
Esther Zuckerman
"I took that home that day," he said pointing at the wall. "Sat there polishing it with Noxon until it got nicely cleaned up. And that was the beginning of a lifelong, some people call it, obsession. I don't, I don't think it's an obsession. I think it's just a great love and respect for the history of the industry that's made me a wonderful living for 50 years."
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Shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Congress declared the Smithsonian the official repository for materials related to the tragedy, so that they could be permanently preserved. Now, from September 3 to September 11, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History will be displaying some of the items. The New York Post reports that the exhibit will include "airplane fragments, objects from Pentagon offices, and a door from a crushed New York fire truck." Objects will be displayed on tables instead of in traditional glass cases to make the exhibit more personal and intimate. The museum will also host a forum on July 26 addressing "The Public Memory of September 11," featuring presentations from the directors of the memorials in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. [NYP]
It's painful at this point to write anything related to the bogeyman known as Charlie Sheen, but here we are. One of his "goddesses," Bree Olson, who stars in porn films and tweets dirty things ("Once you fuck me it'll be hard to go back to that tired worn old bitch. Lol I'll ride it like a rodeo."), bumped up against prewar French conceptual art and didn't quite get it. The above is a picture of her with Marcel Duchamp's 1917 "readymade" Fountain in the background. Quoth Bree, "Art museum in Philly last week. They had some creepy shit!" LOL art is so weird. 
via @breeolson
[via The Daily What / Dangerous Minds]
The American Museum of Natural History launches a new exhibit this weekend called "The World's Largest Dinosaurs." We had the privilege of checking it out early. It's housed on the third floor of the museum, the same floor as the traditional dinosaur displays. But this ain't your average dino-exhibit! This is the 2.0 of dinosaur exhibits. 
Last month we reported on the different museums and institutions vying to display America's retired space shuttles. The Wall Street Journal reports that NASA is going to announce this afternoon that New York will soon be home to one of those fought-after shuttles. The Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum will soon feature Enterprise, a test shuttle that never made it into space. Congratulations, Intrepid, we're test impressed and test excited for you.
Not Enterprise, as it is preparing to go into space.
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