In an interview with Volz for the biennial catalogue, Macuga cites that modern-day Wunderkammer, Los Angeles's highly eccentric Museum of Jurassic Technology, as one of her favorite museums.
Currently on show at the Petrie Museum, a treasure trove of everyday Egyptian artefacts tucked away inside London's University College, is an installation by Putnam from the Museum of Jurassic Technology, a Los Angeles-based hybrid of museum and artwork founded and run by artist filmmaker David Wilson.
This eccentric look at Los Angeles' highly eccentric Museum of Jurassic Technology, curated by one David Wilson, was nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award - and some readers will argue it should have won both.
I consider the Museum of Jurassic Technology to be one of the greatest artistic treasures of the Western world," Macia Tucker, director of New York's New Museum, told Weschler.
This modest but fascinating selection of letters on loan from the Museum of Jurassic Technology, the maverick Los Angeles Wunderkammer that David Wilson has stocked with a wild assortment of collections and artifacts where fact and imagination overlap, presents a period snapshot of the idiosyncratic, often plainly irrational but always fiercely propounded ideas that swirl in the wake of widely disseminated "official" scientific findings.
Rinder likes National Geographical, pseudo-anthropological, -museological exhibity stuff, but instead of getting a master--David Wilson of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, for example--we're stuck with the ersatz: John Leanos and Salon de Fleurus.
Ralph Rugoff once wrote of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, "If a museum can disrupt our sense of distance from the objects it displays, it might not serve to isolate the past so much as to link it to our current experience.
MCA associate curator Toby Kamps has selected eleven artists (and two Museum of Jurassic Technology curators) who use models of the real or imagined as departure points for work in two dimensions (Alexis Rockman's trompe-l'oeil landscapes; Hiroshi Sugimoro's wax-museum photographs) or three (Tony Matelli's life-size sculpture of three Boy Scouts puking; Helen Cohen's miniaturized interiors within interiors).
