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The Museum of Everything!

This weekend I went to a fabulous museum called “The Museum of Everything” located on the corner of Regents Park Road and Sharpleshall St. N. London (tube: Chalk Farm Station). The museum is fairly new, having only opened this past October 2009. Since then it has received so much attention that they will stay open until the new year and hopefully be permanent.

Upon arrival you think you are either walking into a bohemian speak-easy or a fight club garage down a dark alleyway. What I loved most was not only that it was FREEZIE but the curation of the exhibit. Each contemporary artist was nominated by another artists and each work description was then written about by another famous artist in the industry. Truly collective. Supposedly its Britain’s “first space to show works by Outsider Artists, described here as “un-taught artists who live or lived outside of modern society” (about two thirds are no longer alive). One piece that was exhibited was a yarn-wrapped sculpture created by an artist with downs syndrome, who was mute and deaf.

In tiny crevices and under dusty beds, there lies a secret creativity by the unknowns of society. Unexpected, delicate and profound, this democratic work has inspired the world’s greatest artists.

www.musevery.com