The Art of Mod Museum demands to be taken seriously and doesn’t appreciate when our curating efforts are made to seem dumbed down by the fact that we reblog charts such as this.

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Well, good to know that we’re not the only complete bullshit museum out there…

Introducing you to MONA: The Museum of Non-Visible Art, a “museum”/”project” promoted by James Franco:

The Non-Visible Museum is an extravaganza of imagination, a museum that reminds us that we live in two worlds: the physical world of sight and the non-visible world of thought. Composed entirely of ideas, the Non-Visible Museum redefines the concept of what is real. Although the artworks themselves are not visible, the descriptions open our eyes to a parallel world built of images and words. This world is not visible, but it is real, perhaps more real, in many ways, than the world of matter, and it is also for sale.

Note: This has made over $13,000 on Kickstarter so far.

And thus, we are going to start our own Kickstarter ASAP.  Because although we may not have James Franco, our goals for the Artifacts of Modernity Online Museum is almost this stupid and post-aka-not-really-avant-garde.  Look for details of our upcoming fundraising project soon.

We here at the Museum are NOT embarrassed to admit that this right here, this single entry that you are currently reading, is unlike all the rest.  For this is merely a blog post.

This is NOT an Artifact of Modernity Photo of the anything.  This is just us writing on this here website.

This is not an entry of post-ironic discovery into the ever-evolving canon of artifacts that make up our lovely mom and pop shop of a museum.  This is just some words that we’d like to share.

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This is not a (post)(post)modern marvel of any kind.  This is just a way for us to thank our Museum visitors, and especially thank our Tumblr followers, a scholarly group of mostly humans which now adds up to a whopping 200 of you.  (Kudos to nastypeople, the 200th of them all.)

This is also a friendly reminder that Art of Mod tweets.  Yes, we really occasionally do.  
And since so so few people care to actually “follow” us on Twitter, we’d like to say a few words:

- Firstly, thank you to all of you who don’t even have a Twitter account and thus can’t “follow” us because that would be logistically impossible without an account.  The world is a better place thanks to you.

- Secondly, thank you to those of you who do use Twitter and do follow us.  We hope our limited number of tweets inspire and enrich your life every day.  (Okay, we lied, this is actually an apology for wasting space on your Twitter feed.  We know you like following JustJared, name-that-up-and-coming-Disney-star, and that crazy black chick you went to high school with more than us and we’re fine with that.  Seriously, we are.)

- Thirdly, to the rest of you, the majority probably, who do have Twitter accounts but do not “follow” @ArtofMod, thank you as well.  It’s thanks to you that we stay so level-headed in life.  If it weren’t for you, lord knows how egotistical and un-mediocre-feeling we’d become.  And even more importantly, if it weren’t for you we wouldn’t be taking time out of our July 4th, 2011 to write this hardly-passionate plea to get you to “follow” us.

So all in all, yeah, we admit it.  This here is just a blog post.  And worse than that, it’s kind of an advertisement.  But better than that, it’s also chock full of thank you’s.

Hope you all feel really good about yourselves because we thanked each and every one of you in some regard.  We appreciate your continued patronage of the Museum and look forward to cleaning up more of your used gum you stick under all the benches.

With deepest sincerity, patriotism and silliness,
The Curators.

SELF PROMOTION GOES HERE:
EMAIL US at info@artofmod.com
FOLLOW US at @ArtofMod
STALK US at facebook.com/ArtofMod 
(WOULD YOU LIKE A PHONE NUMBER TO CONTACT US AT?  IF SO, EMAIL US AND WE’LL SET IT UP, SERIOUSLY) 

Artifacts of Modernity, despite what it might appear to be, is not just a place to collect the garbage and horrors of today’s post-ironic world.  It’s also a place to recognize and codify the notions of today, to collect the ideas and quotes and graphics and visuals that will be someday remembered as “so 2011”.

And so, we are delighted to offer you this: a screenshot from the beloved once-upon-a-TV-series Arrested Development.  The image features closed captioning written at the bottom of what was being said by the above character, one of the 2000’s most shining examples of mothers on television, Lucille Bluth, at the time the screenshot was taken.

The central idea for our curating of this image is actually for two reasons.  The first, most obviously, is that the above quote by Lucille is hilarious and rather fitting for how much we all hate/love/hate Arizona.  The second, more subtly, is that this above image is one similar to so many others that continue to trickle through the interweb at this day and age.  2011 and its neighboring years will be remembered by these iconic screenshots with text at the bottom that offer a much faster and more direct representation of a particular television/movie/videographic scene than having to actually watch the clip itself.

Don’t you forget now, this is a Museum.  (shut up, it is!)  (stop that, it’s not funny, this is really a museum, ok?!?)

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The Museum is considering posting this every single day until this whole Art of Mod thing gets less and less Museum-goers and thus becomes further obsolete and eventually no more via the above statement.

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The once-popular now-struggling-to-maintain-its-niche-in-postironic-society blog hipsterrunoff has just taken one step further to trying to make desperate appeals to viewers again (sorry kids, its not 2008 anymore) by creating an ONLINE MUSEUM.

But not just any old eMuseum… it’s titled The Museum of Modern Alt.

The Curators here at the Original Museum of Modern Artifacts would like to use this opportunity to release a statement on this wow-we-know-for-a-fact-that-Carles-has-read-Art-of-Mod-before (via a comment or two he has left for some of our posts) and-thus-this-idea-is-a-rip-off issue at hand:

We the Curators gladly welcome a new competitor eMuseum, and we applaud Carles, author of Hipster Runoff,’s efforts to make his 2008-era website a successful blog source once again.  However, the similarity of his concept to ours and a lack of any credit given to the original online museum of modern bullshit prototype presents us hard-laboring Museum staff with some definite frustration and resentment.

We feel that this unannounced unrecognized move by the HRO media consortium will leave many Museum-goers feeling bitter towards Carles.  Although we do not condone any time of direct action against the Hipster Runoff regime, we fear that escalating tensions may ensue via our loyal militants I mean Museum-goers.

Do you feel like the “reign” of HRO as the head honcho of post-irony-for-babies blogging is over?

Are you also really over the let’s-make-fun-of-American-Apparel-by-using-words-like-“yall”-and-leaving-out-vowels thing?  Do you feel like it’s all kind of been done before?

Do you prefer reading post-ironic content with actual commentary written for at least pseudo-educated people (via Art of Mod) instead of just post-ironic content with post-ironic-for-8-yr-old-internet-users commentary (via HRO)?

Isn’t The Cobra Snake over?  Didn’t Cory Kennedy get too skinny to be seen anymore and just fade into the ether, aka people finally stopped caring about what some uninteresting cokehead has to say?

Wouldn’t you rather read a blog written by an interesting cokehead than an uninteresting cokehead?

Is blogging still a ‘thing’?  When you tell your friends about Artifacts of Modernity, do you refer to it as an ‘Online Museum’ or do you just call it a blog?  When you do refer to it as an Online Museum, is it because you actually believe in its eMuseum-ness or are you simply looking to conceal your incorrect idea that its actually just a pathetic blog but you don’t want to publicize it that “oh its just some blog” kind of way?

If Museum-goers begin to protest the HRO regime, will Carles’ Sharia law-abiding military come in and squash Art of Mod by bringing into attention the fact that this Museum totally stole the asking-rhetorical-questions style of HRO itself?

All we know is that this may not end well…

IF you were to view culture and society on a whole, you would easily find that fashion trends come and go over time.  While some trends have lasted for longer than others and some have made greater impacts than others, they have all played roles into the way people have looked, dressed, and identified throughout modern time.

But some fashion trends are more special than others… for some have entered the canon of twenty/twenty-first century culture as “chics”.  Originally a French word that was first codified into the English language at the end of the 1800’s, the term grew with much greater popularity in the 20th century to describe what was stylish and smart.  

Sometimes used flatteringly, sometimes used pretentiously, sometimes used ironically, the word “chic” has grown to be often accompanied by an adjective; the qualifier always precedes the word “chic” to give it some further specific context to what genre the “chic” may apply.

But in case you are one of those scholars in School of Thought 2k11 that thinks that anything can be a “chic” because anything can be anything in 2011, we here at the Museum would like to kindly inform you that you are incorrect.
For the Great Arbiter of Knowledge, the All-Powerful Source of What is Right, aka Wikipedia, deems that there are specifically 47 chics that exists in life.

So in order to both give our Museum-goers an educational experience and present some wonderfully amusing fashion trends, the Museum will look to catalogue each and every one of the Wikipedia-acclaimed “chics” in existence.  We will continually add to this Permanent Collection over the next few weeks, so be sure to visit often.

When the cataloguing is complete, we will have the thrilling opportunity to open up a new tumblr page we mean wing of the Museum devoted solely to this great collection of work.

We hope you will enjoy all the chic-ness that is about to come your way.  Keep up with the Collection anytime at ArtofMod.com/tagged/Chic.

The Artifacts of Modernity Online Museum is proud to present to you The Art of Sass, a new exhibit that hopes to bring clarity and understanding to the idea that personal attitudes can be an art form.

Also, this is just really reflective of the personal brand we try to illustrate.

“We just want to make things better.”

Thank you Sandra Bernhard.

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Welcome to the Museum.

This is a visual representation of exactly what Artifacts of Modernity is…

Thank you for your patronage.

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