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Why Did This Dutch Museum Cover the Floor With an 800-Pound Installation of Creamy Peanut Butter?

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By Michele Debczak Verified
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“Pindakaasvloer,” or “peanut butter floor,” highlights the absurd sense of humor that artist Wim T. Schippers captured in his artwork before he died last month Wim T. Schippers reached audiences through radio, television and found-material sculptures, but the medium he was perhaps best known for was a common pantry stable.
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Why did this Dutch museum cover the floor with an 800-pound installation of creamy peanut butter?

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By Michele Debczak Verified
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Michele Debczak Wim T. Schippers reached audiences through radio, television and found-material sculptures, but the medium he was perhaps best known for was a common pantry stable. One month after his death on June 10, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in the Netherlands is paying tribute to the Dutch artist by recreating Pindakaasvloer —a famous artwork of his made entirely from peanut butter.
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‘Like an Explosion in a Glass Factory’: Frank Gehry’s Seven-Ton ‘Icehenge’ Desk That Once Graced a Skyscraper Lobby Is Up for Auction

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By Michele Debczak Verified
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Designed for the Inland Steel Building in Chicago, the desk is made from more than a dozen blocks of jagged, green-tinted glass Frank Gehry is best known for designing massive, undulating structures, such as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Now admirers have the chance to own a much smaller piece of work from the architect. Icehenge—a striking, 16-piece desk carved from green-tinted glass—is up for auction.
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