Art Zoo Amsterdam
May 5 Art Zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands In Amsterdam, there's a small taxidermy gallery with artfully preserved specimens meant to evoke a “Wunderkamer” (Room of Wonder, or cabinet of curiousities). This Art Zoo is created by a pair of artists called Darwin, Sinke & Van Tongeren (Yes, Two artists, that incorporate Darwin into their name to honor the role of a naturalist in preserving and sharing the wonders of nature). I went for the birds, and to show the boys the dinosaurs. ‘Stan’ the replica t-rex was curled so he fit in one room, just barely. He shared it with blackened skeletons of birds, an anteater, an ape, and curiously, a purse made of lab-grown dinosaur leather. The temporary exhibition ‘RELICS is a collection of gigantic fossils that was transformed into contemporary artworks’. A triceratops skull hung suspended over delicate coral. A mosasaurus skull stood like the globe in the middle of a giant's bone crown. There was also a seemingly un-altered Eleph...