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The Museum of Pizza was a pop-up exhibition, or "selfie museum", of pizza-themed art that took place in Brooklyn, New York, from October 13 to November 16, 2018. The Museum of Pizza, otherwise known as MoPi, hosted over 25,000 people in its six-week run. The Museum of Pizza featured artwork by over 25 different artists, including large-scale pizza-inspired custom installations by Adam Green, Shawna-x, Signe Pierce and Emma Stern, Gazoo To The Moon, and more. A group show titled "The Psychedelic Pizza Parlor" was curated by RJ Supa of Yours, Mine, and Ours Gallery (located in downtown Manhattan) and featured work from Sarah Bahbah, Hein Kohn, Adam Parker Smith. Andrew W.K.'s custom pizza guitar was also on display. The Museum also displayed 70 pizza boxes from Scott Wiener's Guinness World Record holding pizza box collection. [1] A preview party was held at the New Museum. [2]

The Museum of Pizza was created by Kareem Rahma, co-founder of Brooklyn-based media company Nameless Network. [3] Rahma was inspired by the Museum of Ice Cream, as well as a cave system in Lebanon, which served as the inspiration for the Museum's "Cheese Cave" exhibit. [4] Rahma detailed the process of creating the museum on an episode of Gianmarco Soresi's podcast The Downside. [5] [6]

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References

  1. Cascone, Sarah (October 16, 2018). "Brooklyn's Museum of Pizza Is Now Open—and It's Exactly as Cheesy as You'd Expect". Artnet News . Retrieved October 25, 2018.
  2. Hess, Amanda (September 27, 2018). "The Existential Void of the Pop-Up 'Experience'". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331.
  3. Mufson, Beckett; McManus, Brian (October 16, 2018). "This Made-for-Instagram Pizza Museum Actually Has Great Art". Vice. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
  4. Levy, Nicole (26 April 2018). "Why those Museum of Pizza ads are so sexual". am New York. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  5. Gianmarco Soresi (2024-07-06). The Pizza Museum (Full Story) . Retrieved 2024-09-07 via YouTube.
  6. Kato, Brooke (2024-07-11). "Museum of Pizza creator shares 'bonkers' story behind his nearly Fyre Festival-level catastrophe: 'I lost a lot of money'" . Retrieved 2024-09-07.

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