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The Creative Museum Triumphs Again
Every culture has a comb. It can symbolize a ruler’s deification, be a liturgical object for high priests, or an item that pushes the limits of an artistic movement. In Japanese culture, combs were an...
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The Creative Museum in Exhibition: Le Japon Amoureux
The Museum of African and Asian Arts in Vichy, France, resides in a 19th Century residence and contains collections, which were gathered by Christian missionaries from both continents. The Creative...
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Jewish Burial Combs
“Ritual purification before God” defines Jewish burial. The liturgy and ceremony to prepare the body is called taharah, from the Hebrew verb taher, “be pure.” The Torah first mentions it in Genesis...
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Learning from the Creative Museum and Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment
In quotes are comments from Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment by Truus Daalder. Reference numbers are in italics and specified at the bottom. The photographs and other writing come from the collection and...
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Presentation at the Creative Museum
I was honored to do it. Credit really goes to Catherine and Joel Olliveaud. This is my collection. Cheers… कंघी For more scholarly research, please examine our Resource Library and these books: The...
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Auguste Bonaz at the Creative Museum
The Creative Museum just acquired another masterpiece by Auguste Bonaz. Made c. 1920 in Oyonnax, five medallions of painted leaves and rhinestones rest in the middle of a curved frame. The medallions...
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Plumes: The Creative Museum at the Musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Asie
In its second collaboration with the Museum of African and Asian Arts in Vichy, The Creative Museum has been invited to participate in the exhibition, PLUMES. Human fascination with birds begins when...
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Creative Museum: Stones, Leaves, Scissors
The Creative Museum just played a significant part in another exhibition at the Montelimar Miniature Museum. STONES, LEAVES, SCISSORS is about hair ornaments made in three different ways. Whether an...
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Creative Museum: From the Ottomans to the Qajars
The boundaries of the Ottoman and Persian Empires often overlapped over the course of history Their art has been enriched by many outside influences such as Central Asian, Indian, and even Chinese....
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When You Give Your Combs Away
Mortality comes to us all. My art is the fire that illuminates my home, the warmth that protects me from the freezing waters of a refugee-filled sea — but I’ve seen the videos. Is it morally possible...
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