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The Homeless Museum of Art is not about the homeless problem in America, it’s basically a museum without a home. Since 2002, New York-based artist Filip Noterdaeme has been acting like the pretentious douchebag that I have grown to love. His homeless museum has been located in various places - his rental  apartment in Brooklyn, an activist’s initiative, a vacant  artist’s studio, part of a collection of original artworks and a mock museum  booth in a commercial art fair. The mission statement of HoMu (which even has a board of trustees by the way) is “to subvert the increasingly impersonal,  market-driven art world and expose the sellout of cultural institutions  to commerce, cronyism, real estate, and star architects”. Believe it or not, the museum actually has a collection, a homeless one, but a collection nonetheless. Even though the museum’s been pretty quiet since 2007, it appears that the museum reveals its location from time to time. Hopefully it won’t turn up outside your home.
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thisbelongsinamuseum:

The Homeless Museum of Art is not about the homeless problem in America, it’s basically a museum without a home. Since 2002, New York-based artist Filip Noterdaeme has been acting like the pretentious douchebag that I have grown to love. His homeless museum has been located in various places - his rental apartment in Brooklyn, an activist’s initiative, a vacant artist’s studio, part of a collection of original artworks and a mock museum booth in a commercial art fair. The mission statement of HoMu (which even has a board of trustees by the way) is “to subvert the increasingly impersonal, market-driven art world and expose the sellout of cultural institutions to commerce, cronyism, real estate, and star architects”. Believe it or not, the museum actually has a collection, a homeless one, but a collection nonetheless. Even though the museum’s been pretty quiet since 2007, it appears that the museum reveals its location from time to time. Hopefully it won’t turn up outside your home.

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